not talented

not talented

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Xu é sh ū C á IQI ǎ n, which means not high in talent and knowledge. It is often used as a word of self modesty. It comes from cold swallow in Pingshan and truant biography.

The origin of Idioms

"Pingshan Lengyan" Chapter 4: "if you say that archaeology writing, I was a late scholar, I dare not boast

Pu Songling's play truant biography in the Qing Dynasty: "don't say that the boy is not very good at learning when he is young. He is the old Confucian. He has a good method. He is rich in learning and has read thousands of books. He has no place to search and recruit."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate or attributive; used in self modesty.

Examples

I don't know how to do it. I'm afraid I can't get it right. The fourth scene of Pingju "qinxianglian"