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This introduction highlights the idiom 「秉筆直書」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

When writing history books, one should record facts without concealing anything.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bǐng bǐ zhí shū

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bing2 bat1 jik6 syu1

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