Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「棲丘飲穀」, explained here.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「棲丘飲穀」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
Refers to seclusion in the mountains and forests.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qī qiū yǐn yù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chai1 yau1 yam2 guk1
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