We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「敬授民時」.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「敬授民時」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
It refers to giving the calendar to the people so that they can understand the changes in seasons and not miss the farming season. Later, the calendar was promulgated with this reference. Same as “respectfully teach others”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jìng shòu mín shí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ging3 sau6 man4 si4
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