Combed words(shū wén zhì zì)

Combed words

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ū w é nzh ì Z ì, which means exegesis. It comes from preface to Zhu Shenfu's posthumous letter.

Idiom explanation

It refers to the text of exegesis.

The origin of Idioms

Zeng Guofan's preface to Zhu Shenfu's posthumous notes in the Qing Dynasty: "at the time of Jiadao, scholars inherited the style of Qianlong's reign and adopted it as a kind of broken learning. They identified the objects and analyzed the names, combed the words in a row, pricked the classics with one or two words, explained or even tens of millions of words, called it miscellaneous, and could not return."

Idiom usage

Used as an object or attribute; used in writing.

Chinese PinYin : shū wén zhì zì