1, beautiful women are unlucky
Explanation: Beauty: Beauty's face; Unlucky: Bad luck. In the old society, a woman was beautiful, but she had bad experiences (mostly early death, widowhood or bad husband).
From: Ban Gu's Biography of Xiao in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "The rest are too anxious, what can we do?" I'm unlucky, but I wish I met you. "
The rest is really urgent. What shall we do? I'm unlucky, but I'm glad I met you.
2. Cherish the past and cherish the present
Interpretation: admiration: envy, admiration; Thin: thin. Refers to the ancient thick today thin.
From: Yu's "Love with Fate, Words and Rhyme": "You are far away from me, you cherish the past and cherish the present, and the world is also common."
You are far away from me, and you admire the ancient and the thin. Now, the traffic situation in the world.
3. prefer one thing to another.
Explanation: value or give preferential treatment to one party, despise or ignore the other. Metaphor treats these two aspects differently.
Said by: Biography of Liang Shu He Chen: So, if you get married, you will be influenced by me. When you come out, you will be passed. You want to be thinner than this and thicker than that. Although this service is down, it will be very long. "
The second wine, I hope the people live and work in peace and contentment. Officials are all like Zhuolu, who always let history oppress Xiao He and Cao Can, pay less taxes and avoid those who suffer.
4. Light tax
Interpretation: Jude's words are frivolous. Reduce corvees and taxes.
From: The third fold of Jin Ge Ba by Chen in Wuhan, Yuan Dynasty: "The second wine, I wish folk music, and the officials are like deer, so that every time history wants to be suppressed, the tax is light and thin, and those who don't smear charcoal are exempted."
Translation:
5, thin material.
Explanation: small strength and no talent. Often used as a word of modesty.
Said by: Ban Gu, Biography of Han Yan Zhu in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "Besides, the more meager a person is, he can't go out."
Besides, the Vietnamese are too weak to fight on land.