📖 Meaning
To collect and store everything indiscriminately, without selection or distinction. It describes gathering all things together and accumulating them in one place. The idiom emphasizes inclusion without filtering.
📜 Origin Story
This idiom originates from the Ming dynasty scholar Li Dongyang's 'Preface to the Poem Sent to Xie, the Nanjing National Academy Sacrificial Wine Official.' In the text, Li discusses how Confucian teachings regarded moral education as the paramount task of rulers, and that local schools and academies gathered and accumulated all talents indiscriminately, yet still could not match even one percent of the truly selected few. The phrase illustrates the practice of collecting everything broadly rather than choosing selectively.
💡 Example Usage
这座图书馆多收并畜，各类典籍应有尽有。
This library collects and stores everything indiscriminately, with all kinds of classic texts available.
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🔤 Quick Facts
- Chinese: 多收并畜
- Pinyin: duō shōu bìng chù
- Literal Translation: much, collect, together, store
- Category: Method
- Characters: 4