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Ying: follow, comply with. Obey the will of heaven and adapt to the will of the people. It was often used in the old days to praise the establishment of a new dynasty. Also written as “responding to the will of Heaven and following the people” and “responding to the will of Heaven and following things”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yīng tiān cóng rén
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ying3/ying1 tin1 chung4 yan4
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