{"id":4594,"date":"2019-11-20T10:03:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T10:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-wordsvocabulary\/wind-and-shadow-that-you-shouldnt-chase-chinese-idiom-bu-feng-zhuo-ying\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T10:03:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T10:03:51","slug":"wind-and-shadow-that-you-shouldnt-chase-chinese-idiom-bu-feng-zhuo-ying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wind-and-shadow-that-you-shouldnt-chase-chinese-idiom-bu-feng-zhuo-ying\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWind\u201d and \u201cShadow\u201d that you shouldn\u2019t chase \u2013 Chinese idiom \u6355\u98ce\u6349\u5f71"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Some Chinese idioms are easier to be learned by switching the character order and turning them into normal word order first.<\/p>\n<p>  For example, idiom \u6355\u98ce\u6349\u5f71 b\u01d4f\u0113ngzhu\u014dy\u01d0ng is easier to be learned by re-order the &ldquo;verb + noun + verb + noun&rdquo; structure into &ldquo;verb + verb + noun + noun&rdquo;. Like this: \u6355\u6349\u98ce\u5f71 b\u01d4f\u0113ngzhu\u014dy\u01d0ng:<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u6355\u6349 b\u01d4zhu\u014d (chase and catch) + \u98ce f\u0113ng (wind) \u5f71 y\u01d0ng (shadow)<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>  In this idiom, &rdquo;chase and catch the wind and shadow&rdquo; means to speak or act on hearsay evidence or make groundless accusations. Both &ldquo;wind&rdquo; and &ldquo;shadow&rdquo; are things that people can&rsquo;t catch or hold as solid objects. So they were used as analogies for rumors, gossips or unreliable findings or observation. The judgement you made that ba<em><\/em>sed on unreliable things is very likely to be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>  Do you understand what \u6355\u6349\u98ce\u5f71 b\u01d4zhu\u014df\u0113ngy\u01d0ng means now?<\/p>\n<p>  Following that, we can break the two-character verb \u6355\u6349 b\u01d4zhu\u014d into two single-character verbs, and do the same thing to \u98ce\u5f71 f\u0113ngy\u01d0ng. Re-order them into \u6355\u98ce\u6349\u5f71 b\u01d4f\u0113ngzhu\u014dy\u01d0ng since it rhymes better that way. Remember, ancient Chinese loves rhymes and were very picky on how an idiom sound in its tones. \ud83d\ude42 So here you go:&nbsp; \u6355\u98ce\u6349\u5f71 b\u01d4f\u0113ngzhu\u014dy\u01d0ng. You should have seen this kind of pattern in lots of Chinese idioms.<\/p>\n<p>  Let&rsquo;s re-enforce your memory by practicing the newly learned Chinese idiom in the following two examples:<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; t\u0101 shu\u014d dehu&agrave; sh&igrave; b\u01d4zhu\u014d f\u0113ng y\u01d0ng, b&ugrave;n&eacute;ng x&igrave;n de.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u5979\u8bf4\u7684\u8bdd\u662f\u6355\u98ce\u6349\u5f71, \u4e0d\u80fd\u4fe1\u7684.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What she said came out of thin air, not trustworthy.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; n\u01d0men r&egrave;nw&eacute;i t\u0101 g&agrave;n le n&agrave; ji&agrave;n sh&igrave;? zh&egrave; ch&uacute;ncu&igrave; sh&igrave; b\u01d4zhu\u014d f\u0113ng y\u01d0ng.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u4f60\u4eec\u8ba4\u4e3a\u4ed6\u5e72\u4e86\u90a3\u4ef6\u4e8b? \u8fd9\u7eaf\u7cb9\u662f\u6355\u98ce\u6349\u5f71.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; You think he did it? It&rsquo;s a groundless accusation.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2564511549\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Chinese idioms are easier to be learned by switching the character order and turning them into normal word order<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[119,54],"class_list":["post-4594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-words-phrases","tag-ancient-chinese","tag-chinese-idiom"],"views":276,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}