Quality without slang

Quality without slang

Plain but not slang, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is zh ì é RB ù L ǐ, meaning simple but not vulgar. It is also called "quality without wildness". It comes from the biography of Sima Qian in the book of Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

According to the biography of Sima Qian in Hanshu: "however, since Liu Xiang and Yang Xiong wrote a lot of books, they all said that Qian had the material of good history, obeyed his good order and reason, discriminated but not Chinese, had the quality but not slang, had the straightness of writing, had the core of affairs, had no false beauty, and had no hidden evil, so it was called true record."

Idiom usage

"Peacock Flying Southeast" is not slang in quality, disorderly but neat, picturesque in narration, full of emotion and holy in length. Wang Shizhen's Yiyuan Yiyan in Ming Dynasty (Volume 2)

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: quality without wildness