Chinese learners move from characters to idioms as the highest level. This free resource explains 「看破紅塵」 below.
Here’s the idiom 「看破紅塵」, with its definition and practical application described below.
It used to refer to a negative attitude towards life, in which one sees through life and does not care about life, death, sorrow or joy. It now also refers to a life attitude of passive avoidance and inaction after suffering setbacks.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
kàn pò hóng chén
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hon1/hon3 po3 hung4 chan4
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