Things seldom seen are strange.(liáo dōng bái shǐ)

Things seldom seen are strange.

Liaodong white boar, pronounced Li á OD ō NGB á ISH ǐ, is a Chinese idiom, which comes from the book with Peng Chong.

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A pig in Liaodong gave birth to a white headed piglet. The owner thought it was strange, so he sent it to Jinxian. When he came to Hedong, he saw that many pigs were white all over, so he went back shamefully. Later, he used "Liaodong white boar, liaoliao white head, liaoliao white boar, liaoliao white boar" to indicate that he saw little and saw much strange, or he was ashamed because of his shallow knowledge. He often wrote modest words.

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"In the past, there were boars in Liaodong, and they gave birth to white headed children. When you go to Hedong, you will see that all the pigs are white, and you will be ashamed to return. " One of Li Bai's two poems to fan Jinxiang: "Liaodong is ashamed of white boar, Chuke is ashamed of pheasant." According to Luo Bin Wang's "the imperial capital chapter" written by the Minister of Shangli Department: "the Danzhi of Chu Hui is so ashamed in southern Jing; the boar of Liao Dynasty is so white that he looks to the east of the river." Zhang Jiuling's poem "Nanyang Dao Zhong Zuo" says: "when I have no time to go out to Guizhou, I have no time to go out to Guizhou, but I have no time to go out to Guizhou." Luo Binwang's Shangzhou Cishi Qi: "holding pheasant and self-defense, we should be ashamed to look after Liao pig." Gu Yun's "shangchizhou Wei Lang Zhongqi" said: "Fu Ying in Kong Yanjiang Hao, end up ashamed of Qin chicken Liao pig."

Discrimination of words

[usage] as the object and attribute, it refers to less common, more formal, the eldest son, happy to forget death, the son of moth flies, etc

Idiom story

Peng Chong, a great general of the Eastern Han Dynasty, followed Liu Xiu to fight in the world, but he didn't get much attention. He didn't agree with Zhu Fu, the governor of Youzhou. He thought of the rebellion. Zhu Fu wrote to him, saying that a farmer of Liaohe wanted to go to the emperor because he had a white headed pig, but when he went to Liaodong, he found that there were all white headed pigs, so he had to go back to his house. You are just like that farmer

Chinese PinYin : liáo dōng bái shǐ