【Idioms】
Talk is better than nothing
【Pinyin】
litig shèng yú wú
【Definition】
Consolation: Consolation. CHAT: Slightly. Better than nothing: better than nothing. There was also some comfort, better than nothing.
【Source】
Jin Tao Yuanming's "And Liu Chaisang": "The valley wind turns miserable, and the spring mash relieves hunger; Although weak women are not men, comfort is better than nothing. Perched in the world, the years are sparse, the cultivation and weaving are called shared, and it is necessary to pass through this xi. ”
Explanation: The cold of the east wind is gradually approaching, and the spring wine relieves hunger and fatigue. Although thin wine is no better than good wine, it is always better than no wine to make your heart feel at ease. The things of the world are busy, and I have been estranged from them for a long time. Ploughing the fields and weaving cloth is self-sufficient, and there is no other wish.
【Synonyms】
Very few
【Antonyms】
There are countless others
【Idiom Story】
During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a man named Tao Yuanming. He was a famous poet, lexicographer, and essayist. A submarine, the character Yuanliang, private Jingjie, known as Mr. Jingjie. A native of Chaisang, Xunyang (浔阳柴桑, in modern Jiujiang, Jiangxi). He once served as a liquor sacrifice in Jiangzhou, a soldier in Jianwei, a soldier in the town army, and a commander in Pengze County, and the last time he was appointed as the order of Pengze County, he abandoned his post for more than eighty days, and since then he has returned to the countryside and is desperate to pursue a career. He was the first pastoral poet in China, known as "the ancestor of ancient and modern hermit poets, and authored the Tao Yuanming Collection".
After returning to the countryside, Tao Yuanming immersed himself in writing poetry and lyrics. His poems mostly depict pastoral scenery and the scenes of their life in the countryside, which often imply a dislike of the dirty officialdom and the spirit of reluctance to conform to the same stream, as well as the yearning for a peaceful society; he also writes about the anxiety about the shortness of life and the concept of conforming to nature and happy life, which has more philosophical components. Its artistic characteristics are both plain and cheerful; the language is simple and natural, but also quite refined, with a unique style.
In July of the tenth year (414) of the Jin Dynasty, The Eastern Lin Temple of Lushan presided over the White Lotus Society of Hui Yuan and others, and Liu Chengzhi was one of the eighteen sages in the society. They recruited Tao Yuanming to join the society, but Yuanming refused, so he wrote a poem "And Liu Chaisang":
Yamazawa has seen the trick, Hu Shi is hesitant?
Straight for the sake of the old, I did not bear to live in the words.
Liangchen fell into a strange embrace, and the staff was returned to Xilu.
There is no return to the wasteland, and there are ruins all the time.
Maoz has already been cured, and the new domain should be restored.
The valley wind turned miserable, and the spring mash relieved the hunger.
Although weak women are not men, they are more comforting than nothing.
Perched in the world, the years are mutually distant.
Cultivation and weaving are called their uses, and they are necessary for this.
Go to go a hundred years away, the name is the same as The same.
Liu Chaisang , also known as Liu Chengzhi ( Liu Chengzhi ) , also spelled Zhongsi , was a native of Pengcheng (present-day Tongshan County, Jiangsu ) , who had served as the commander of Chaisang County , hence the name ; after entering the Song Dynasty , he lived in seclusion and was also known as Liu Yimin. Together with Zhou Xuzhi and Tao Yuanming, he was known as the "Three Hiddens of Xunyang".
This poem is a japanese poem he wrote to Liu Chengzhi. In a frank attitude, the poem shows that he is very satisfied with the hidden farming life of self-sufficiency and drinking enough to masturbate, and has put life and death, body name, etc. aside, and has no other desires, so he does not want to enter Lushan to serve as a Buddha. Tao Yuanming was fifty years old.
【Example of sentence construction】
Although the family is very poor, he still simply renovated himself, and also relied on scavenging everywhere to pick up a few pieces of furniture, which is better than nothing, and now it looks relatively warm.
Two minutes a day to accumulate a wealth of knowledge
The answer to the previous issue: the land of fish and rice, the face is yellow and thin
Based on the information provided in the following two pictures, guess two idioms.
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