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This feature highlights the idiom 「薑桂之性」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Ginger and cinnamon become spicier as they age. It is a metaphor that the older you get, the more upright your character becomes.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiāng guì zhī xìng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
geung1 gwai3 ji1 sing3
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