冷斋夜话

冷齋夜話

Lěngzhāi yèhuà

proper noun

Meanings

1 Night Talks from the Cold Studio, the Northern Song monk Huihong's book of notes on poems and poets

HSK 7-9

《冷斋夜话》是北宋和尚惠洪写的诗话。

《 Lěngzhāi yèhuà 》 shì Běisòng héshang Huìhóng xiě de shīhuà.

Night Talks from the Cold Studio is a book of remarks on poetry by the Northern Song monk Huihong.

HSK 7-9

成语“痴人说梦”出自《冷斋夜话》。

Chéngyǔ " chīrén-shuōmèng " chūzì 《 Lěngzhāi yèhuà 》.

The idiom 'a fool telling dreams' comes from Night Talks from the Cold Studio.

history

惠洪 (1071–1128), a Chan monk and poet, was a friend of the poet 黄庭坚. Its 10 scrolls mix anecdotes about poets with judgments on their lines.

culture

Besides 痴人说梦, which first meant telling a dream to a fool who takes it as fact, it gave the idiom 不易之论 'an unassailable argument'.

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