滥觞
濫觴Meanings
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- 1.lit. floating wine goblets on a stream
- 2.the origin (of some phenomenon)
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Wiktionary
- 1.to originate
- 2.to spread to and affect; to spread and influence; to involve
- 3.to spread unchecked; to run rampant
- 4.source; origin
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Etymology
From the concept that the water source is so gentle at the source of a river, that a beverage vessel — 觴／觞 (shāng, “a kind of alcohol drinkware”) — can be steadily floated, as if in a banquet with "floating cups" (cf. 流觴曲水). For example, in the Xunzi it was said that
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