{"id":975,"date":"2023-07-30T22:01:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T14:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/?p=975"},"modified":"2023-07-30T22:01:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T14:01:19","slug":"3-idioms-related-to-chinese-folk-love-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"3 Idioms Related to Chinese Folk Love Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tomorrow is Chinese Valentine\u2019s Day,\u00a0Qixi<\/strong>(\u4e03\u5915,\u00a0q\u012bx\u012b<\/strong>) again. The love tale of the cowherd and weaver maiden is well known; but besides this legend, do you know any other classic Chinese love stories and their relative idioms or cultural meanings? Follow the article then you will know\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n

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ti\u0101n g\u00e8 y\u012b f\u0101ng\u5929\u5404\u4e00\u65b9<\/strong>\u00a0We won\u2019t bother to talk about the story again on the occasion of Qixi. Long ago,\u00a0Zhi Nv<\/strong>,\u00a0the weaver maiden<\/strong>\u00a0was the youngest daughter\u00a0of the Queen of Heaven.\u00a0Niu Lang<\/strong>\u00a0was a poor\u00a0cowherd<\/strong>, driven out of home by his elder brother and his wife. Niu Lang had\u00a0a friend who was\u00a0a magical cow. One day, the cow told him a way to find a nice girl as his life companion.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Niu Lang went to the riverside that evening under the guidance, where Zhi Nv was there bathing with her sisters who slipped out from heavenly palace. The two saw each other and fell in love. Zhi Nv did not go back with her sisters to heaven.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Queen of Heaven was angry\u00a0and had to bring Zhi Nv\u00a0to heaven. Niu Lang was very sad. He listened to his friend cow to make its cowhide into shoes and flew to sky to see her but punished by the Queen as a fairy maiden could not marry a human being. Finally they are only allowed to meet each other once every year on a bridge built by magpies across the Milky Way.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Therefore,\u00a0\u725b\u90ce\u7ec7\u5973\uff0c\u5929\u5404\u4e00\u65b9<\/strong>(ni\u00fal\u00e1ngzh\u012bn\u01da\uff0cti\u0101ng\u00e8y\u012bf\u0101ng<\/strong>)\u00a0means that the couple live far apart which is difficult for them to see each other. For\u00a0example:
D\u011bng y\u00ecq\u00edng ji\u00e9sh\u00f9\uff0ct\u0101men y\u011b n\u00e9ng ji\u00e9sh\u00f9\u00a0ni\u00fal\u00e1ngzh\u012bn\u01da ti\u0101ng\u00e8y\u012bf\u0101ng<\/strong>\u00a0de sh\u0113nghu\u00f3 le\u3002\u00a0\u7b49\u75ab\u60c5\u7ed3\u675f\uff0c\u4ed6\u4eec\u4e5f\u80fd\u7ed3\u675f\u725b\u90ce\u7ec7\u5973\u5929\u5404\u4e00\u65b9<\/strong>\u7684\u751f\u6d3b\u4e86\u3002When the pandemic is over, they will be able to end the life of living apart from each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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shu\u01d0 m\u00e0n j\u012bn sh\u0101n\u00a0\u6c34\u6f2b\u91d1\u5c71<\/strong>\u00a0Once upon a time on\u00a0Mount Emei\u00a0there lived two snake spirits,\u00a0White Snake<\/strong>\u00a0and Green Snake\u00a0who turned themselves into beautiful ladies and set off on a journey to the West Lake. They met a man called\u00a0Xu Xian<\/strong>. White Snake quickly fell in love with him and they were soon married. A Buddhist monk,\u00a0Fa Hai<\/strong>, warned Xu Xian of his wife’s deceptive appearance and suggested\u00a0a plan.
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The plan was to persuade the White Snake drink realgar wine,\u00a0what\u00a0people use to exorcise evil spirits\u00a0on the day of Dragon Boat Festival.\u00a0White Snake had to accept a cup. She became very ill afterwards and turned into a giant snake. Xu Xian shocked so much that he collapsed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u00a0White Snake set off on a journey for\u00a0the\u00a0medical herb to revive her husband. After returning, Xu Xian recovered but kept being enticed by Fa Hai. The two snakes had to seek help from spirits of the water. They had a battle\u00a0against\u00a0Fa Hai. But finally trapped and lost freedom under Lei Feng pagoda.\u00a0
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\u6c34\u6f2b\u91d1\u5c71<\/strong>(shu\u01d0m\u00e0nj\u012bnsh\u0101n<\/strong>) is a trick that White Snack used to deal with Fa Hai: to flood\u00a0the Jinshan Temple with water. Now the term\u00a0is\u00a0used as a\u00a0metaphor meaning everything is flooded.\u00a0Zh\u00e8 b\u00e0oy\u01d4 xi\u00e0 de\u00a0y\u012bl\u00f3u d\u014du ku\u00e0i\u00a0shu\u01d0m\u00e0nj\u012bnsh\u0101n<\/strong>\u00a0la\uff01
\u8fd9\u66b4\u96e8\u4e0b\u5f97\u4e00\u697c\u90fd\u5feb\u6c34\u6f2b\u91d1\u5c71<\/strong>\u5566\uff01The storm was so heavy that\u00a0the ground floor is almost\u00a0flooded<\/strong>.\u00a0
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b\u01d0 y\u00ec shu\u0101ng f\u0113i\u6bd4\u7ffc\u53cc\u98de<\/strong>\u00a0You must have heard of many stories like a girl disguised as a boy\u00a0falling love with another boy. Yes, a lot of movie or novel still enjoying refering to the prototype of\u00a0Liang Zhu<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0Zhu Yingtai<\/strong>\u00a0in man\u2019s suit set out to Hangzhou and studied at school because in old time girls are not allowed to go to school with boys. One of her classmates,\u00a0Liang Shanbo<\/strong>\u00a0was so smart and knowledgable that they were like old friends for first sight.
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Yingtai felt she loved Shanbo after three year\u2019s studying together but had to leave when finishing study. Few months later, Shanbo went to visit her and found her a girl with surprise. So he sent a matchmaker to her parents\u00a0for getting the permission of marriage. However, Yingtai\u2019s father already accepted the proposal of another man\u00a0from the rich. Shanbo was super sad. He became\u00a0seriously sick then\u00a0passed away.
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Knowing Shanbo’s\u00a0death made Yingtai in low spirits. On the day of the wedding when she\u00a0was escorted in a sedan,\u00a0they happened to pass by Shanbo\u2019s tomb. The party had to stop as the wind blew hardly suddenly. Yingtai cried saidly in front of the tomb then jumped into the tomb before anyone else could realize it. The wind ceased and two butterflies flying out of the tomb danced beautifully in the sun. \u00a0
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The idiom\u00a0\u6bd4\u7ffc\u53cc\u98de<\/strong>(b\u01d0y\u00ecshu\u0101ngf\u0113i<\/strong>) describes love between the couple who are not separated from\u00a0each other. They appear side by side in career, daily life or any occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

W\u01d2 zh\u00f9yu\u00e0n n\u01d0men f\u016bf\u00f9 z\u00e0i sh\u00ecy\u00e8 sh\u00e0ng\u00a0b\u01d0y\u00ecshu\u0101ngf\u0113i<\/strong>!\u00a0\u6211\u795d\u613f\u4f60\u4eec\u592b\u5987\u5728\u4e8b\u4e1a\u4e0a\u6bd4\u7ffc\u53cc\u98de<\/strong>!I wish you couple can\u00a0proceed shoulder by shoulder together<\/strong>\u00a0in your career!
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Tomorrow is Chinese Valentine\u2019s Day,\u00a0Qixi(\u4e03\u5915,\u00a0q\u012bx\u012b) again. The love tale of the cowherd and weaver maiden is well known; but besides this legend, do you know any other classic Chinese love stories and their relative idioms or cultural meanings? Follow the article then you will know\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[7,5],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}