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For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「巴山蜀水」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

Ba and Shu refer to the Sichuan area. The mountains and rivers in Sichuan.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bā shān shǔ shuǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ba1 saan1 suk6 seui2

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