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This introduction highlights the idiom 「席豐履厚」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Xi: mat; refers to seating; Feng: a lot; Lu: shoes, referring to something under the feet; Hou: thick. A metaphor for the rich ancestral heritage. It also describes a comfortable life.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xí fēng lǚ hòu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jik6 fung1 lei5 hau5
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