overtones(xián wài zhī yīn)

overtones

Off the string sound, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Xi á NW à izh à y à n, originally refers to the music's aftertone. Metaphorical implication, that is, in the words indirectly revealed, rather than out of the meaning. From the book of prison and all nephews.

The origin of Idioms

Fan Ye of the Southern Song Dynasty wrote in his book "prison and all nephews and nephews" that "the meaning of a string is not clear, and the sound of a false sound comes from nowhere."

Idiom usage

It is used as subject and object. I think that this sentence is a song and three sighs, and that sentence is ~. (Liu Bannong's Fengda to Mr. Wang Jingxuan) Pei Songzhi's annotation of the biography of Zhou Yu in the annals of the Three Kingdoms quoted Yu Pu's biography of Jiang Biao in the Western Jin Dynasty: Cao Gong heard that Yu was young and had beautiful talents. He said that he could travel to Yangzhou and sent Jiujiang Jianggan to see Yu. He is well-known for his talent and appearance. He walks alone between the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River. It's a cloth cloth and a kerchief. It's a private affair. Yu went out to meet him and said to Gan, "Ziyi is good and bitter. He has traveled far to the river and lake to be a lobbyist for Cao family." Gan said, "I'm separated from zuxiazhou. I'm far away from fanglie, so I come to xukuo and observe the elegant rules. But is the cloud lobbyist rebellious?" Yu said: "although I'm not as good as Kui and Kuang, I'm satisfied with elegant music when I hear the string and appreciate the music."

Chinese PinYin : xián wài zhī yīn