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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「白日上升」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
It means ascending to heaven in broad daylight. Taoism holds that after a person has cultivated and achieved enlightenment, he or she can ascend to heaven in broad daylight and become an immortal.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bái rì shàng shēng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
baak6 yat6 seung6 sing1
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