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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「破除迷信」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Originally meant to break free from the shackles of religious superstition. It now also refers to emancipating the mind, eliminating inferiority complex, and establishing a new style of daring to think, speak, and act.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pò chú mí xìn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

po3 cheui4 mai4 seun3

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