pet phrase(kǒu tóu chán)

pet phrase

Oral Zen refers to a person used to intentionally or unintentionally often speak sentences. Catchphrases can be regarded as one of the symbols of a person, and also affect other people's image and perception of him. A mantra can be a reflection of psychology, which can reflect the mental state of the speaker.

Many movies or TV series, the protagonist will say some unique phrases, these phrases may be created by actors to more clearly express the character of the characters in the play. Some catchphrases will become the object of many people's imitation and become a social phenomenon.

Possible origins

The original meaning of the mantra is to put some ready-made scriptures and legal cases on the lips without spiritual enlightenment, pretending to be very reasonable. Up to now, catchphrases have completely become the meaning of personal idioms, as if they have been blurted out without thinking. According to the view of modern psychology, the catchphrase is not completely without "heart", it implies some psychological activities and psychological effects.

Source: Song · Wang Zhen's dying poem: "I don't learn the catchphrase in my life, I'm down-to-earth and empty the sky."

Zen attaches great importance to epiphany, does not set up words, and points directly at people's hearts. However, only Huigen people can realize it. The ancients said: "wealth does not return home, such as embroidered clothes at night." That is one of them. Although the sage taught us: "knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, it is also knowing." However, only sages can do that. Therefore, it is human nature for Zen to use ready-made scriptures and official cases as oral AIDS. The name "mantra" inevitably has some derogatory meanings.

Later generations take some words that are not of much practical significance as "mantra", which refers to the idioms of someone or a certain kind of people. In the Song Dynasty, Wang Zhen's "wild guest series" said: "I don't do a mantra in my life. I'm down-to-earth and empty the sky." The first episode of Caigen Tan: "when you don't see sages in reading, you are a servant; when you live in an official's home, you don't love your children; when you give lectures, you don't practice, you are a mantra." The mantra may not be meaningless. To some extent, it can show the personality, conduct or psychology of the person. It's hard to be "persistent" if you want to put every sentence into practice. When it comes to "misfortune comes from the mouth" and "too much is lost", that's another matter.

usage

As an object; a word that is often spoken but has no practical meaning.

formation

The formation of a mantra is roughly related to the user's personality, life experience or mental state. It can be regarded as a personal sign, and also affects other people's feelings towards this person. For example, most people who often say "almost" or "casual" are content with the status quo, lack of self-determination and unclear goals; most people who often say "it is said", "maybe" or "forget it" lack self-confidence; people who often say "look at me" or "no problem" are full of self-confidence and happy to take responsibility.

Positive, progressive mantra, will encourage people to face difficulties, overcome difficulties. But there are also some more negative, negative phrases have a psychological hint, it will obliterate people's will inadvertently.

Language style is the embodiment of personal cultural accomplishment. The language style of the catchphrase will naturally connect you with this temperament. For example, civilized and cultured words like "thank you" and "sorry" will make people feel your high quality; people who always talk about "boring" and "boring" will also make others feel decadent and depressed Exhaustion and no pursuit.

Some people will let themselves lose a lot of opportunities and friends because of their mantra, so it is very important to optimize their mantra. For example, the other party was chatting with you in high spirits, but just after two sentences, they heard your "boring", "ha ha" and other phrases. No matter who the other party is, their chatting enthusiasm will immediately drop from high to low. And if you can change the above words to "really!" "Great I believe you can greatly increase your popularity.

Mantra is the result of the influence and accumulation effect of major events on people, and is the "sequela" of major life events. The major turns and changes encountered in the journey of life will be quietly implanted into the heart and reflected in the current experience. For example, if a person always achieves success through hard work and is full of confidence and control in his life, then his mantra is likely to be positive vocabulary. It is precisely because catchphrases are highly personal and repetitive language response patterns that often expose some private information in people's hearts and reflect their fundamental conduct, handling affairs and values.

A human behaviorist once said: "human beings have two kinds of expressions, one is the expression on the face, and the other is the message conveyed to each other when speaking." It can be seen that language is the second expression of human beings. However, the phrases with high repetition rate in the corpus have some psychological projection function, which reveals the inner thoughts of the speaker to a certain extent.

classification

Today's catchphrases are generally divided into two categories according to their sources: one is the abbreviation of professional expressions and the other is totally social popular expressions. There is a big difference between the two.

Professional idioms used in the workplace, as long as both sides of the dialogue can understand, there is nothing wrong, but if the subject and the guest are not the same occupation, we should not use the professional idioms as a mantra. Especially in the service industry, internal employees often use idioms to talk with customers. If they use industry idioms as a mantra, they are likely to make a joke.

The form of social popular expressions as their own mantra is relatively broad. However, there are some catchphrases that people like, but also some that people dislike. A catchphrase is generally regarded as a kind of beauty, so it is accepted. For example, more polite "sorry", "please" and so on, can reflect a person's speaking quality and cultural temperament. But the annoying mantra is different. For example, people who are full of foul language and swear at others naturally make people feel rude and uncivilized; for example, when they speak, they like to insert a few words of "seriously", "before elder brother..." "At the beginning, Laozi..." Another example is always saying that others are "really boring", "really boring" and "ha ha". And the light Nuo mantra. For example, some people who don't have any real skills will "come to me if you have something to do" or "no problem" when they have something to do. They may miss both people and things.

According to their meanings, they can be divided into two categories: positive and negative. Positive, progressive mantra, will encourage themselves to face difficulties, overcome difficulties. Negative phrases also have certain psychological implications, which will obliterate people's will inadvertently.

Famous psychologist William James said: "sow an action, harvest a habit; sow a habit, harvest a character; sow a character, harvest a destiny." It's not meaningless to blurt out the mantra habitually. A mantra reflects a pattern of response to a certain kind of situation. In particular, the mantra with negative words is a negative hint to cognition and emotion. There are three types of negative phrases to avoid.

First, deny yourself. Chinese people are used to belittle themselves to show humility, so this kind of mantra is quite common. As everyone knows, the mantra of belittling oneself makes people pay attention to their weaknesses all the time. As a result, even their advantages are discounted.

Second, they are biased against the external environment. Although prejudice is the accumulation of other people's or their own social experience, it often exaggerates the dark side of things and becomes a negative thinking pattern, which makes people easily make the cognitive errors of generalizing, black or white, and leads to irrational judgments and behaviors.

Third: vent negative emotions too often. The blurting out of these negative emotion words can make the bad emotion express quickly, and appropriately can effectively express and relieve the emotion. But the long-term use of negative emotion mantra not only makes people depressed, but also makes others feel depressed.

Chinese PinYin : kǒu tóu chán