books containing anecdotes
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B à IGU ā NY ě sh ǐ, which is generally called novels and works recording anecdotes. It comes from the history of Han Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
"The stream of novelists is created by the officials, the gossip and the hearsay."
Analysis of Idioms
The history of official revision
Idiom usage
As predicate, object and attribute, it is the general name of old novels and miscellaneous history. Chapter 16 of the biography of heroes and Heroines: Although this unofficial history is stubborn, it is just like a writer. It must first be divided into a true biography, a supplementary biography, a theme and an object, a foreshadowing and a realistic writing, and then there must be a frame structure. Chapter 70 of Jing Hua Yuan written by Li Ruzhen in Qing Dynasty: now I want to pay this inscription to the literati as an unofficial official history and spread it all over the world. Barnyard official: a kind of small official in ancient times. It collects street talk and hearsay for emperors to read
books containing anecdotes
strike the head on the ground and call on heaven - bó dì hū tiān
a general who rather prefers to be beheaded than to surrender - duàn tóu jiāng jūn
authorized to open letters and act during another's absence - dài chāi dài xíng