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Examples:the eaves that the four corners of a building—the four guardians or warrior attendants of Buddha—the “Four Clean-ups” Movement (1963-66), a nationwide movement clean things up in the fields of politics, economy, organization and ideology (historical)—the four social bonds: propriety, justice, integrity and honor—the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century—the four heavenly kings (Sanskrit vajra)—the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism)—the Four Noble Truths (Buddhism)—"Legal Quotient (LQ)", standard reflecting a lawyer's legal ability based on the four tenets of legal knowledge, situational assessment, conduct and righteousness—the four limbs (Chinese medicine)—Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed in240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical—the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty—the “Four Clean-ups” Movement—Dhritarashtra (one of the Four Heavenly Kings)—the four corners (of a rectangle)—Shikoku (one of the four main islands of Japan)—the four great Chinese inventions: paper, printing, magnetic compass and gunpowder—Virupaksa (on of the Four Heavenly Kings)—one of the four tones of Middle Chinese—the four limbs of the body—regard the four corners of the world all as home [idiom.]—lit. the four elements are vanity [idiom.]—lit. fire beacons in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war—Zhang Chunqiao (1917-2005), one of the Gang of Four—Yao Wenyuan (1931-2005), one of the Gang of Four—the fire of war in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war—Four Arts of the Chinese Scholar (zither, Go, calligraphy, painting)—four legs facing the sky (idiom); flat on one's back—never move your four limbs, can't distinguish the five crops (idiom); living as a parasite—Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations practiced from the 1980s (possibly planned together with Zhou Enlai), namely: modernization of industry, agriculture, national defense and science and technology—Jiang Qing (1914-1991), Mao Zedong's fourth wife and leader of the Gang of Four—lit. one strong beat and three weak beats in a measure of music (four beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. scrupulous attention detail—Wang Hongwen (1935-1992), one of the Gang of Four—Zhang Zhixin (1930-1975) female revolutionary and martyr, who followed the true Marxist-Leninist line as a party member, and was arrested in 1969, murdered in 1975 after opposing the counter-revolutionary party-usurping conspiracies of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, and only rehabilitated posthumously in 1979—lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); change sth. that is already settled upon— |