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Maqiao Dictionary 韩少功 520Words 2018-03-19
This is included in many dictionaries. "Chinese Folk Dialect Dictionary" (Nanhai Publishing Company, 1994) explains it this way: Liushi, also known as "Liusi".Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs of the River": "The exposition of the river with the girl, the current is rushing and the future is going down." It was originally used to describe the rapid flow of water.Immediately, immediately, quickly.For example, "He didn't even take a sip of his meal, he put down his chopsticks and left." "Modern Chinese Dialect Dictionary" (Jiangsu Education Press, 1993) explains it like this: flow more, flow time, adverb.Hastily: "Heard some news, he came here quickly"

Some southern novelists have also used this word in their own way, such as Zhou Libo, who often used "flowing water" in works such as "The Great Change in the Mountain and Country", for example: "It's raining, and he called people to come to the field to harvest the grain." Except for "Liu Li" which has been annotated by the ancients as thawing ice, it should be excluded for the time being. Same meaning, namely "immediately".These words should also have originated in the watery southern kingdom, just as "immediately" and bad can originate in the northern kingdom of Thomas, there is probably no doubt.

The passage of time shows the earliest feeling of the southern people about time. "The son said on the river: the dead are like a husband." They found that no matter whether it was a gurgling stream or a mighty river, they would never return. As the time passed, the youth became an old man and the green grass withered and yellow in a blink of an eye. A sense of urgency.Elapse may be slow, but no matter how slow, the fear of elapse makes people have to use the word "elapse" to warn future generations at all times, and they must act in a hurry, instilling a sense of tension in this word.

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