{"id":12144,"date":"2019-11-20T07:55:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T07:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-words-phrases\/birds-of-a-feather-wu-yi-lei-ju\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T07:55:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T07:55:13","slug":"birds-of-a-feather-wu-yi-lei-ju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/birds-of-a-feather-wu-yi-lei-ju\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds of a Feather \u7269\u4ee5\u7c7b\u805a"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>  Birds of a feather flock together is a popular English proverb used to describe how people with similar tastes tend to seek out each others company. In Chinese there is a similar ex<em><\/em>pression, \u7269\u4ee5\u7c7b\u805a, which literally means like attracts like.<\/p>\n<p>  The Chinese phrase is more than 2,000 years old. The phrase is said to have originated during the Warring States period (475-221 BC). A renown scholar, Chun Yukun, was asked by King Xuan of the State of Qi to bring other talented people like Chun to the King&#8217;s court. For Chun, fulfilling this request was literally a walk in the park. As a respected scholar himself, Chun spent alot of his time mixing with other respected scholars, so he knew exactly wher to find them &#8211; as he said to the King:<\/p>\n<p>  Birds of the same type often fly together and animals of the same type are often seen walking in groups.<\/p>\n<p>  This tendency of people to gravitate toward those who are similar still rings true today and, arguably, is a big reason why large communities naturally divide into groups.<\/p>\n<p>  Some argue that the Chinese idiom, \u65b9\u4ee5\u7c7b\u805a, is also an equivalent ex<em><\/em>pression.<br \/>  <br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2896342619\"><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>Birds of a feather flock together is a popular English proverb used to describe how people with similar tastes tend<\/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":[54],"class_list":["post-12144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-words-phrases","tag-chinese-idiom"],"views":182,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}