尝新 (嘗新) chángxīn
chángxīn
verb
to taste new offerings
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Traditionally, to taste the items of the new harvest in the first month of fall, after a ritual (Guoyu '嘗新'; Mathews 1931 '嘗新', p. 26)
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第二十四回 Chapter 24 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 2
- 第五回 Chapter 5 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 2
- 周語上 Discourses of Zhou I Guoyu 國語 — count: 1
- 卷五 時則訓 Chapter 5: Seasonal Standards Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 1
- 卷二十四上 食貨志 Volume 24a: Treatise on Trade 1 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 1
- 第二十五回 Chapter 25 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
- 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months The Book of Rites 禮記 — count: 1
- 卷九 非儒下 Book 9 - Anti-Confucianism II Mozi 墨子 — count: 1
- 第二十六回 Chapter 26 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
- 第三十回 Chapter 30 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
Collocations
- 天子尝新 (天子嘗新) 天子嘗新 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 3
- 儿尝新 (兒嘗新) 怎得一個兒嘗新 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第二十四回 Chapter 24 — count: 3
- 一个尝新 (一個嘗新) 要一個嘗新 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第二十五回 Chapter 25 — count: 2