Tonggudabian

Tonggudabian

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t ō NGG ǔ D á Bi à n, which means to be familiar with ancient knowledge and act flexibly according to the actual situation. It comes from he Xianlun, a scholar selected from four subjects of provincial examination.

The origin of Idioms

Wang Yucheng of the Song Dynasty wrote in his book on how to select scholars from the four subjects of provincial examination: "those who do not have the ability to study the world and understand the changes of the ancient times, and their literature is not expensive, then their literature will get its scholars."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate or attributive; used in writing