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This introduction highlights the idiom 「桑弧蓬矢」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
In ancient times, when a man was born, he would use a bow made of mulberry wood and arrows made of pampas grass to shoot at the four directions of heaven and earth, which meant that he had great ambitions.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
sāng hú péng shǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
song1 wu4 pung4 chi2
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