📖 Meaning
To recklessly engage in wrongful and immoral behavior without restraint. It describes someone who is unbridled in pursuing decadent, corrupt, and improper conduct. The term is interchangeable with 放僻淫佚.
📜 Origin Story
The phrase appears in a preface by the Qing dynasty scholar Liu Dakui (刘大櫆). In the preface, Liu observes that among friends of his time, people would gather without reason in a single room, indulging in food, drink, and amusement, and exchanging talk of a reckless and decadent nature — what he termed 放辟淫侈之谈 (talk of indulgence and depravity). The expression thus originated as a critique of the dissolute social habits Liu witnessed among his contemporaries.
💡 Example Usage
他为官期间放辟淫侈，终被朝廷革职查办。
During his tenure as an official, he recklessly indulged in corrupt and decadent behavior, and was ultimately stripped of his post and prosecuted by the court.
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🔤 Quick Facts
- Chinese: 放辟淫侈
- Pinyin: fàng pì yín chǐ
- Literal Translation: indulge, deviant, licentious, extravagant
- Category: Morality
- Characters: 4