Various idiom stories

"Variety" means that things are varied, unpredictable and dazzling. In fact, in ancient times, "multifarious" had different meanings.

Ancient farming economy was a self-sufficient agricultural production mode, and there were few production industries with social division of labor. The variety includes all the production and service industries that people saw in the market at that time. For the sake of convenience, people use the word "multifarious" to summarize the' service industry' that can be seen in the whole market to illustrate the prosperity of the market. What do "five flowers" and "eight doors" mean?

"various":

Jin Juhua-a woman who sells tea;

Kapok-a doctor who treats people;

Daffodils-restaurant singers;

Pyracantha-juggler;

Flowers in the soil-porters;

A towel-fortune teller;

Ermenpi-a person who sells herbs;

Tricolor-juggler;

Four doors hanging-Jianghu artists;

Wumenping-storyteller and storyteller;

Six-door combination-street singer;

Seven-door tune-people who set up tents and tie paper;

Eight-door chat-high platform singer.

Expanding Reading: An Unswerving Idiom Story

Xie An was famous when he was young. Yu Bing, the secretariat of Yangzhou, sincerely asked him to be an official many times. As a last resort, Xie An managed to cope with it for a while, but he went home again in less than a month.

Later, the court asked him to be an official several times, but he refused to go. There is nothing he can do. Go to Dongshan in Huiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) and live in seclusion.

The court still didn't give up the idea of making him an official, so Xie An had to accept the appointment of the court. But Xie An still wants to live as a hermit after becoming a senior official.

"Xie An Biography" records: "Although An was sent by the DPRK, the ambition of Dongshan has never changed." Among them, "unswerving" is what we now call "unswerving".

The explanation is always: from beginning to end.

Chongqing: change, violation. It hasn't changed from beginning to end Keep one's promise.

The source of the book of Jin Xie An Biography: "Although An was sent by the DPRK, the ambition of Dongshan remained unchanged from beginning to end, and everything was said."