Talk:拋磚引玉
Add topicRe: self-depreciating
[edit]The definition says lb|zh|self-depreciating, and I wonder whether it would be better to change it to "self-deprecating".
1) This article [1] discusses the issue of depreciate vs deprecate, and they say Etymologically speaking, self-depreciating is the better choice, but self-deprecating has triumphed in standard speech; self-deprecating is the version to use if you don’t want to seem ignorant.
2) Wiktionary has an entry for self-deprecating but not for self-depreciating.
Richwarm88 (talk) 23:22, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
Why is 抛磚引玉 showing up as a redlink? 173.88.246.138 14:08, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
- 拋 (trad) vs. 抛 (simp). — justin(r)leung { (t...) | c=› } 14:14, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
Origin
[edit]Is this not the origin of the idiom?:
The expression comes from a story about two poets in the Tang Dynasty. Once, a celebrated poet named Zhao Xia was about to visit Suzhou, the city of gardens in south China. When the poet Chang Jian heard about this, he knew that Zhao was sure to stop by the Lingyan Temple (Temple of Intelligent Rock). So he went there at once and wrote two lines of poetry on the wall. When Zhao Xia arrived and saw the two lines left by Chang, he wrote two more lines, completing the poem. It is generally agreed that the last two lines are far superior to the original lines of Chang Jian. Therefore Chang Jian is said to have “cast a brick to attract jade.” [2]