Red tape

Red tape

Red tape, Chinese idiom, read as f á NW é NR ù L ǐ, refers to cumbersome and unnecessary etiquette.

Idioms and allusions

[source]: "Zhu Zi Yu Lei" volume 2-4: "Qin's so-called profit and loss can also be seen in many red tape on weekends, so it's too much to lose, but it's too much to gain."

Discrimination of words

For example, a person who is tired of red tape has his own form, and a person who is wary of slander has his own heart. In Tang Shunzhi's preface to Feng Shaoxu, a gift to Yixing Ling in Ming Dynasty, fwrl is used as subject, object and clause, and metaphor is cumbersome and superfluous