117.Why Do Chinese People Love Using Idioms?

In our main historical storyline, we are now in the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. Romance of the Three Kingdoms can be called a “super-rich mine” of Chinese idioms. There are more than three hundred idioms and historical references connected to it alone. Even today, behind everyday Chinese conversation, you can still see the shadow of Three Kingdoms stories. So today, let’s talk about Chinese idioms. In Chinese, there is a very special language phenomenon: four characters, or even a shorter phrase, can hold a story, a judgment, a personality, a war, or even a whole set of life experience. When foreigners first start learning Chinese, they often find this very strange.