纪家却花这么大手笔 给她办及笄礼
“Yet the family puts on all this for her?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你们说 那顾大姑娘 不过是纪家的外孙女
“Consider this, she's not of Ji blood, just the daughter's child.”
纪家却花 这么大 手笔 给她办 及笄礼
“Yet the family puts on all this for her?”
“Some people are just born under a lucky star.”
“It makes no sense for them to spend so much money on an outsider unless there is something unusual going on.”
Traditional Chinese kinship drew a sharp distinction between paternal clan members (nei) and maternal relatives (wai, such as maternal granddaughters). Lavish family expenditure on a 'wai' granddaughter was seen as unusual and worthy of gossip.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
lavish spending; grand gesture; massive investment
Commonly used both historically and in modern times to describe someone spending an enormous amount of money or making a grand stylistic effort.
to hold a coming-of-age hairpin ceremony
A historical term specifically denoting the ritual celebration of a young woman turning fifteen.
