Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「一脈香煙」—details below.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「一脈香煙」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Refers to the descendants who continue the family line. When a person dies, his descendants must often burn incense and offer sacrifices, so it is said.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī mài xiāng yān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 mak6 heung1 yin1
There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.
