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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「嘲風弄月」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Chou: to laugh at; Nong: to enjoy; Feng and Yue: generally refer to various natural scenery. Refers to writing that describes scenes such as wind, clouds, moon and dew but is poor in ideological content.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

cháo fēng nòng yuè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jaau1 fung1 lung6 yut6

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