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It is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ì Q ù h é ngsh ē ng, which means that it is full of extraordinary taste. It comes from the tomb of Tongqiao Yilu.
The origin of Idioms
Gu Lu of the Qing Dynasty wrote in the book Tongqiao yifulu · tomb: "when I am drunk, I write with great interest, which means I can't wake up."
Idiom usage
Old Guo's speeches are always written in four pictures. Bing Xin's late Qing Ji: mourning for Guo Lao
replete with humour
give up eating for fear of choking - wén yē fèi shí
discourse at random of things past and present - shuō gǔ dào jīn