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Faltering, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ù L ǚ P á NSH ā n, which means to walk with a limp. It describes walking with an inconvenient and crooked leg. From Shangzhen view.

The origin of Idioms

PI Rixiu's Shangzhen view in Tang Dynasty: "Tianlu line falters."

Idiom usage

Subject predicate; predicate, attributive; derogatory. example song · Gong Xizheng's Shi Chang Tan · faltering: faltering is called suffering from foot. Chapter 77 of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in Qing Dynasty: "with a pair of big candles in hand, he hobbled in."

Idioms and allusions

Pingyuan Jun's house is very high, which overlooks the houses of nearby residents. His beauty, Dai Qie, lives upstairs. One day, all the beauties were looking around upstairs and saw a lame man go to the well to draw water. The beauties couldn't help laughing when they saw that he was walking slowly and swaying around. Some of them even imitated his walking posture for fun. The lame man was very angry at the insult. In the early morning of the next day, this man came to visit Pingyuan Jun and asked, "I heard that you like to accept sages, and the reason why sages will come to you is that you can value sages and despise beauties. Unfortunately, I have the disease of waist bending and back bulging. It's not polite for people in your room to see it from a height and laugh at me wantonly. I want the head of those who laugh at me Mr. Pingyuan said with a fake smile, "OK." After the man left, Pingyuan Jun gave a sneer and said to the people around him, "look at that boy, it's too much to ask me to kill the beauty for the reason of a smile." It wasn't killed. After more than a year, more than half of the guests who lived in Pingyuan Jun's family left one by one. Mr. Pingyuan was very strange. He said to the door guests who had not left: "I treat you sincerely. I didn't dare to lose my courtesy. Why did so many people leave?" One of the disciples came forward and said frankly, "because you don't kill the man who laughs at his lameness, it shows that you like women and despise scholars, so the guests left.". After hearing this, Pingyuan Jun regretted it and immediately asked people to kill the beauties who had laughed at the lame scholars. He took his head and went to the lame people's home to apologize. Soon, the guests who left Pingyuan Jun's house came back one after another. In his book Shi Chang Tan, Wu Ming of the Song Dynasty described "Pan San Xing Ji" in the original of Shi Ji as "faltering". According to Yang Tiange's explanation in "tracing the origin of Chinese Idioms", Pansan is a hobbling, and Xingji is a water lifting on foot. It can be seen that "faltering" is the development of "Pan San Xing Ji", which originated more than 2000 years ago.