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Author: Luo Weiyang
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: There is a type of language that is more widely used and has more authors and readers than poetry, prose, novels, and drama. However, it cannot be learned in school language classrooms, and it is even excluded from literature and language,“” by scholars. Yet, for thousands of years, it has been indispensable in daily life for the common people, and it cannot be abandoned by scholars and literati. Even profound and elegant literary works often use it to enhance their charm. Mr. Luo Weiyang spent ten years collecting, organizing, sifting through the gold, and comprehensively refining, extracting rhymes, folk songs, colloquialisms, secret codes, Three-Character Classic, idioms, four-character rhyming phrases, couplets, poetic applications, poetic creation, imitation, playful parodies, self-praise, and variations—thirteen main types and dozens of sub-types of language skills, naming them "Extraordinary Language." He explains them in detail from the beginning. "Extraordinary Language" comes from life; it is folk, marginal, but also humanistic and brilliant; it is authentic, grassroots, but also wonderful and interesting; it teaches while entertaining, combining solemnity with humor.