S8E06 | Looks can be deceiving

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

For the second time this season, we refer to Zuo Qiuming's "Chronicles of Zuo" for another good and useful chengyu. This one takes place in the Spring and Autumn Period and concerns a haughty self-important minister from Jin State stopping for the night at an inn in Ningyi (河南宁邑). He left quite an impression on the innkeeper there but when this simple innkeeper looked more closely at this official, he saw he was Huá Ér Bù Shí 华而不实. Enjoy this ancient story and learn a new Chinese Saying too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.7	Emma and I came up with a good one for you.
1:03.7	And not just good, but useful too.
1:06.0	Hoar, boo-shirt. This one doesn't take long to tell, and I'll have you on your way in no time at all.
1:12.8	Let's break down the four characters and get right to the story.
1:16.4	Hoar, boo-shirt. What can that mean? Hoar, besides being an abbreviation for China,
1:23.2	usually means glory, but in this particular case,
1:27.3	Hoar is standing in for the character Hoar, which means flower.
1:32.1	Hoar is a conjunction, which means butt, yet, or on the other hand.
1:38.2	And boo means no or not. And sure, as a noun in the second tone means fruit, but more commonly,
1:46.4	it means reality or fact. As an adjective, sure, can also mean true or real.
1:52.4	In this chung-yu, it means fruit, and I'll explain why in a bit.
1:56.5	And for the second time this season, and at least the fourth or fifth time in the history of this show,
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