Everything's Good | The Chinese Sayings Podcast | S05E01
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
With the Season 5 finale of my other show The Chinese Sayings Podcast going up yesterday, I wanted to include the season 5 opener of this show to the CHP feed just in case you haven't had a chance to check out this show. If you like the it, there are 50 episodes across 5 seasons for you to listen to! Search for The Chinese Sayings Podcast on your favorite podcast player and subscribe today! We're back with another season of wonderful and useful chengyu's for your Chinese sayings repertoire. Everyone knows this one. Well, maybe not everyone but it's pretty well-known. We ended last season in the Later Han Dynasty and that's where we'll start Season 5. Though this story was written during the Ming dynasty it concerns the 3rd Century character Sima Hui 司马徽. He was the original Hǎo Hǎo Xiānshēng 好好先生 who lived not to upset anyone or take a contrarian stance against anything that was ever said to him (by anyone).
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| 0:16.4 | Welcome everyone, Lossel Montgomery here with another Chinese saying podcast. |
| 0:21.6 | This one won't take long. For the season 5 opener, I reserved another good one, again, |
| 0:27.6 | a quickie, but want to store in your utility belt as you make your way through life. |
| 0:33.5 | This one in particular has a nice, interesting story attached to it. |
| 0:37.8 | Actually, I thought I did this one already, but when I double-checked the back catalog, |
| 0:42.0 | I realized it only got a quick mention in the past China History Podcast episode. |
| 0:48.8 | So now, I'm giving this great Cheng Yu, it's due and introducing it to you in this CSP episode. |
| 0:56.0 | Haohao Xiansheng, let's not waste any time, and just break it down. |
| 1:01.2 | Haoh means good, or okay, or yes. So, Haohao means good, good, or yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:09.1 | When you're talking to people, you know, when you say, yeah, yeah, mm-hmm, yeah, uh-huh. |
| 1:14.4 | Well, the Chinese equivalent to that is ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. |
| 1:20.1 | So, Haohao is akin to, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, mm-hmm, good, good. |
| 1:25.0 | And a Xiansheng just means mister. So, Haohao Xiansheng means mister good, good. |
| 1:32.6 | You might be able to guess what this means, but this is another one that could mean anything. |
| 1:38.0 | So there's a story attached to this one, and it goes way, way back to the Eastern or later |
| 1:43.4 | Han Dynasty. 25 to 220 AD has certifiably long time ago. |
| 1:50.1 | And the star of this one is a gentleman named Sima Hui. |
| 1:55.0 | The story comes to its courtesy of the Gu Jingtang Kai, a book of essays written by the late Ming |
| 2:01.1 | Dynasty literary figure, Feng Menglong. It's not a particularly famous work, and always at the |
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