hearsay(dào tīng tú shuō)

hearsay

Hearsay, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d à ot à NGT ú Shu à, meaning words heard on the road and spread on the road. A general term for unfounded hearsay. It comes from the Analects of Confucius Yang Huo.

The origin of Idioms

In the Analects of Confucius, Yang Huo: "if you listen to the Tao and speak on the way, you will abandon the virtue."

Analysis of Idioms

[synonyms] anecdotes, shadowy stories, overseas anecdotes, Qi dongyeyu, hearsay and shadowy stories

Idiom usage

In Qing Dynasty, Li Ruzhen's Jing Hua Yuan: "my sister hearsay, I don't know if she still asks for instructions." Fang Zhi's traitor: "I am responsible to the party and comrades. Even if Yan Chi and Yang Shu are traitors, I should also be responsible to them. I can't write all of them down.

Idioms and allusions

Confucius once said: "if you hear some groundless words from the road, you will spread them irresponsibly on the road. This kind of moral style is not acceptable." During the Warring States period, AI Zi came back to Qi from Chu state. As soon as he entered the capital, he met Mao Kong. Maokong mysteriously told Aizi that a duck from a family had a hundred eggs at a time. AI Zi didn't believe it and said, "there won't be such a thing!" Mao Kong said, "it could be two ducks." AI Zi shook his head: "it's impossible." Mao Kong changed his tongue and said, "it was probably born by three ducks." Aizi still doesn't believe it. "That could be four, eight, ten." Aizi, of course, still can't believe it. After a while, Mao Kong said to AI Zi, "last month, a piece of meat fell from the sky, thirty feet long and ten feet wide." AI Zi didn't believe it. Mao Kong quickly changed his words and said, "that's twenty feet long." AI Zi still doesn't believe it. AI Zi couldn't help it any more. Instead, he asked, "where is the meat ten feet long and ten feet wide in the world, and it will fall from the sky? Did you see it with your own eyes? Which family of ducks did you talk about just now? Where is the big meat you mentioned now?" "Mao Kong couldn't answer the question, so he had to hesitate I said: "that's what I heard on the way." AI Zi laughed after listening. He turned to the students standing behind him and said, "don't be like him in" hearsay. "The idiom" hearsay "originally refers to words heard on the road and spread on the road, but later refers to groundless rumors.

Chinese PinYin : dào tīng tú shuō