Tracing back to the source

Tracing back to the source

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t ǎ Oli ú s ù Yu á n, which means to study the origin of things. It comes from the anthology of poems in the flower hall.

The origin of Idioms

The preface of Wang Tao's anthology in the Qing Dynasty: "I seldom read poems. Since ancient times, the author has been trying to catch up with all the great masters of the dynasty. All of them want to seek the source of the poems and find out the difficulty of writing poems after a long time."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate or object; used in dealing with affairs