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Our focus this time is on the idiom 「簞食壺漿」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
Food: food; soup: soup. The people used baskets of rice and pots of soup to welcome their beloved army. Describes the situation where the army is warmly supported and welcomed by the masses.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dān shí hú jiāng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
daan1 sik6 wu2/wu4 jeung1
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