The beginning and the end of the year

The beginning and the end of the year

The beginning and end of the new year is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is Ni á NT ó uyu è w ě I, which means from the beginning of the year to the end of the lunar month. It generally refers to the middle of the year. It comes from Lin Guangchao's "stupid and stubborn illiterate" in Song Dynasty.

Idiom usage

As a subject or object; of time

The origin of Idioms

Lin Guangchao of the Song Dynasty wrote a poem: "the beginning and the end of the year are all the same, so I'm so stubborn and illiterate."

Idiom explanation

It refers to the period from the beginning of the year to the end of the lunar month. It also refers to the characters at the beginning and end of the three biographies of the spring and Autumn Annals. In the Tang Dynasty, examiners often took samples to test whether the scholars were familiar with the text.