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RT @tmccormick
“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.”
Chinese saying, derived from Confucian doctrine of "rectification of names": en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectif.
Source of the , i.e. 4-character idiom,
(míng zhèng yán shùn, "call things their name").

#chengyu #名正言順

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