Explain the Words "pingyan"、"pingdao"、"xingyan"、"xingdao"、"pingxing" in Taipingjing——and Discuss This with Mr.Wang Yunlu and Mr.Yu Liming

There are the wordspingyan、pingdao、xingyan、xingdao、pingxingin Taipingjing.Mr.Wang Yunlu considers that these words are a set of synonyms.This point of view is right.But it is false that Mr.Wang explains these words as the meaningspeak directly.Through the research,we knowpingandxingin the set of words above are the synonyms ofyan.The wordspingyan、pingdao、xingyan、xingdao、pingxingare all in the form of using synonyms continuously.The basic meanings of them arespeak,and at the same time,these words express the manner of speaking,meanspeak slowly.Mr.Yu Liming adding the interpunctions after the first characters in this group of words,explainspingas the meaning ofthe people of high status speak to the low,and express foregoing formalities;explainsxingasanswering diction,means that the last thing has finished,and go on for the following activity.But Mr.Yu's explanations are all improper.In ancient Chinese,there is a format calledconstituting the idioms mutually while using synonyms continuouslyin word-building,and the set of synonyms are the examples of this format.