Old knowledge in a foreign land
It is an ancient idiom to meet an old friend in a place far away from home. Make people happy. It comes from Song Hongmai's eight volumes of Rong Zhai's Essays: Poems of pride and frustration.
Examples
For example, Lao can, I haven't seen your poem for a long time. Today it's time for you to write a poem. Let's read it. Chapter 12 of Liu e's travels to Lao can in Qing Dynasty Chapter 20 of Wang e's travels to Qing can in Ming Dynasty
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Hong Mai, Song Dynasty, wrote eight volumes of Rong Zhai essays: a poem of pride and frustration: "there are four lines in the old biography, praising people's complacency:" long drought meets sweet rain, foreign land meets old knowledge. The wedding night is a time of fame. " four great joys in life: long drought, sweet dew; old acquaintance in his hometown; wedding night, golden title. There are three kinds of views, one is from Han Wumingshi's Sixi poem, the other is from Song Hongmai's Rongzhai essays, and the other is from Ji Xiaolan of Qing Dynasty. ten years of drought, every dew, thousands of miles of its hometown meet the old knowledge. The night of the monk's wedding, when the supervisor was named. The tenth chapter of Jing Hua Yuan written by Li Ruzhen in Qing Dynasty: "it is true that if there is a will, there will be a way. He killed one last month, and today he went to fight a tiger. Unexpectedly, he happened to meet a good nephew. It's a great honor to meet you in a foreign land
Chinese PinYin : tā xiāng yù gù zhī
Old knowledge in a foreign land
body gone and reputation ruined. shēn míng jù bài
nothing concealed in a straightforward man 's mind. xiōng wú sù wù