vulgar; tacky; tawdry

ordinary; to use

the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1]

golden mean (Confucianism); (literary) (of person) mediocre; ordinary

ordinary; mediocre

Dayong, former name of Zhangjiajie 張家界|张家界[Zhang1 jia1 jie4], Hunan

mediocre person

quack; charlatan

mediocrity

mediocre

variant of 毋庸[wu2 yong1]

muddleheaded

no need for

Jin Yong, pen name of Louis Cha (1924-2018), wuxia 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2] novelist, author of the 1957-1961 Condor Trilogy

vassal; dependent; subordinate; subservient; appendage

Juyongguan, frontier fortress on Great Wall north of Beijing, in Changping district 昌平區|昌平区[Chang1 ping2 qu1]

debasement; vulgarization

doctrine of the mean; moderation in all things

(philosophy) banal evil

a nobody; a nonentity

lit. silly people get their panties in a bunch (idiom); fig. to get upset over nothing; to make problems for oneself

ordinary; mediocre

mediocre and incompetent

(of an uneducated person) to mingle with the cognoscenti; to pose as a culture lover; to be a culture snob; having pretensions to culture