📖 Meaning
Written in the morning and circulating everywhere by evening. It describes how a piece of writing spreads rapidly and widely. The idiom praises the exceptional quality of a literary work that makes people eager to read, recite, and copy it.
📜 Origin Story
This idiom originates from the Biography of Liu Xiaochuo in the History of the Southern Dynasties (南史·刘孝绰传). Liu Xiaochuo was a scholar-official of the Liang Dynasty whose elegant prose was revered by younger writers of his time. Whenever he finished a new piece, it would spread far and wide by that very evening. Admirers would recite and copy his writings, and his verses reached as far as the region north of the Yellow River, inscribed on the pillars and walls of pavilions and gardens wherever people gathered.
💡 Example Usage
这位才子的诗文一经问世便朝成暮遍，传遍大江南北。
As soon as this prodigy's poems were published, they spread everywhere overnight, reaching every corner of the land.
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🔤 Quick Facts
- Chinese: 朝成暮遍
- Pinyin: zhāo chéng mù biàn
- Literal Translation: morning, completed, evening, spread everywhere
- Category: Communication
- Characters: 4