Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「火耕流種」 and how it’s used.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「火耕流種」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
A primitive way of farming in ancient times. First use fire to burn away the weeds, then bring water to sow the seeds. It means farming with fire and weeding with water.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
huǒ gēng liú zhǒng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fo2 gaang1 lau4 jung2
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