high-brow music

high-brow music

Yin Shang Ke Yu is a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is y ǐ NSH ā NGK è y ǔ. It means paying attention to the rhythm and having a high achievement in music performance. It comes from Song Yu's asking the king of Chu in the Warring States period.

The origin of Idioms

Song Yu of Chu in the Warring States period wrote in his book "to the king of Chu", which said: "the leading merchants carved feathers, mixed with flowing symbols, only a few people belonged to the state, but they were harmonious; it was their songs that were high, and their harmony was few."

Idiom usage

It refers to the excellent performance of music. example a little boy came up to Bao Tingxi and stood, clapping his hands and singing Li Taibai's qingpingdiao. It's really the sound of piercing clouds and cracking rocks. ——The 29th chapter of Wu Jingzi's unofficial history of the scholars in the Qing Dynasty and Chu Songyu's question to the king of Chu in the Warring States Period: "the guest has a song in Ying There are only a few people who are in harmony with the Middle Kingdom. It's because the music is high and the harmony is few. " Chapter 29 of the scholars: "it's really the sound of piercing clouds and cracking stones, and it's the music of quoting merchants and carving feathers." It is also called "quoting and cutting corners". Liu Xiang of the Han Dynasty wrote in his new preface: miscellaneous affairs I: "quoting business and cutting corners, miscellaneous and flowing." In Tang Dynasty Yan Bofen's Ge Fu: "either lead business to carve a corner, or break the Wei River to pass the Jing River."

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms: a sharp angle in quoting