We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「亡國之音」.
Here’s the idiom 「亡國之音」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Originally it meant that a country was about to perish and its people were suffering, so the music was mostly expressed in mourning tunes. Later it mostly referred to decadent and licentious songs.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wáng guó zhī yīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
mong4 gwok3 ji1 yam1
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