create groundless rumors

create groundless rumors

Xiangbi Feizao, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Xi à NGB à x à Z à o, which means facing the wall, made out of thin air. Metaphor has no factual basis and is fabricated out of thin air. It comes from preface of Shuowen Jiezi.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: something out of nothing, fictitious in the countryside, fictitious in the countryside

The origin of Idioms

Xu Shen's preface to ShuoWenJieZi: "the country walls make up unknown books, and they often go in disorder to shine on the world."

Idiom usage

It has a derogatory meaning. Hu Shi's on the literary revolution of Construction: "my argument is not made up to the wall." to make a false statement to the wall, to follow the wrong, to hold it as if it had reason, to say it as if it were reasonable. On Yan Fu's salvation