To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「青史垂名」 explained, free of charge.
Let’s learn about the idiom 「青史垂名」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
Qingshi: Qing refers to bamboo slips. In ancient times, people recorded events on bamboo slips, so they were called history books. Chui: pass on. It means to leave one’s name in history and be immortal.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qīng shǐ chuí míng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ching1/cheng1 si2 seui4 ming4/meng2
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