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Money, gain and loss 钱与得失 · qián yǔ shīdé
How Chinese talk about money when they are not talking about money. Sharp judgments. A joke about age. A proverb about losing a horse. Two come from classical texts.
6sayings
2with a named source
4everyday speech
Read these in order, or pick one可以按顺序读，也可以挑一句
Six of them. One is about how a loss reverses. One is about stinginess too small to measure. One is a flat joke about age. Notice how often the saying is really about someone else not paying up.
Where these come from出处说明
How we sourced these
Two of the six trace to a named classical text, and each card names the book. The other four are everyday speech with no single traceable origin. A few sayings carry a story that grew after the fact, and there the card says so.
More on this side of the site继续学
Six sayings give you the idea. Vocabulary and sentence patterns are what make them come out of your mouth.