Ah, these are always interesting, although my Chinese teacher was careful to point out that a lot of the stories were probably retconned invented after the fact to make the existing four-character-phrases easier to memorize, after their origins had been lost to time.
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Date: 2010-01-10 02:55 am (UTC)retconnedinvented after the fact to make the existing four-character-phrases easier to memorize, after their origins had been lost to time.