古今小说 (古今小說)
Gǔ jīn Xiǎo shuō
Pinyin
Definition
古今小说 (古今小說)
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- Stories Old and New by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍|冯梦龙[Féng Mèng lóng], collection of late Ming baihua 白話|白话[bái huà] tales published in 1620
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一失足成千古恨
- 1 a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)
上有老下有小
- 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
- 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
- 3 sandwich generation
不拘小节
- 1 to not bother about trifles (idiom)
亘古不变
- 1 unchanging since times immemorial (idiom)
- 2 unalterable
- 3 unvarying
- 4 monotonous
人心不古
- 1 the men of today are sadly degenerated (idiom)