not to follow the beaten track

not to follow the beaten track

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ù Lu ò K ē Ji ù, which means metaphor is unconventional and has original style (mostly referring to articles and works). It comes from learning poetry by Wu Ke of Song Dynasty.

Idioms and allusions

On the night of the Mid Autumn Festival, Jia's family set up a reunion banquet in the Grand View Garden. After the crowd dispersed, Lin Daiyu was sad and tearful alone. Shi Xiangyun came to comfort her. They changed the topic and changed the couplet of poems to the moon. They expressed their feelings about the origin of the architectural name of Grand View Garden, among which the names of "convex Blue Villa" and "concave crystal stream pavilion" were not out of the ordinary.

The origin of Idioms

Wu Ke of Song Dynasty wrote the poem "learning Poetry:" out of the rut of Shaoling, my husband's ambition is soaring. " Hu Yinglin's poem sou neibian IV of Ming Dynasty: "the beginning of learning must start from now on, and the common people will not fall into the small family pattern."

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] unique, innovative, creative and unconventional

Idiom usage

Verb object; used as subject, predicate, attribute; used in writing or art. Examples this "convex" and "concave" have always been used by the least number of people, and now they are directly used as the name of Xuanguan, which is more fresh and unconventional. (Chapter 76 of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty)