raw and whole(huó bāo shēng tūn)

raw and whole

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Hu ó B ā OSH ē NGT ū n, which means to mechanically apply other people's opinions, experiences and methods; or to eat without digesting. It comes from banter in Tang Dynasty by Liu Su of Tang Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Liu Su of the Tang Dynasty wrote in his book "the new language of the Tang Dynasty" that "there is Zaoqiang Wei Zhang Huaiqing who likes to steal articles from celebrities As the saying goes: "strip Wang Changling alive and swallow Guo Zhengyi alive."

Idiom explanation

It refers to mechanically applying other people's opinions, experiences and methods, or eating without digesting.

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate, adverbial and attributive.

Examples

When they came back from Europe, America and Japan, they only talked about foreign countries. Mao Zedong's "transforming our learning"

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: eat the ancient, swallow the jujube, copy mechanically, pull mechanically.

Antonym: to draw inferences from one instance.

Idioms and allusions

In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Huaiqing, an official in Zaoqiang, Hebei Province, was illiterate and fond of writing. He added two words to each line of Li Yifu's five character poem to make his own seven character poem, which made people laugh and laugh. When people saw that he copied Wang Changling's and Guo Zhengyi's poems, they sent him a doggerel: "strip Wang Changling alive and swallow Guo Zhengyi alive" to ridicule his plagiarism.

Chinese PinYin : huó bāo shēng tūn