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Here is the Chinese idiom 「黍秀宮庭」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
According to legend, after the fall of the Western Zhou Dynasty, all the old ancestral temples and palaces were turned into fields of wheat and millet. Later it was used as a phrase to express regret for the loss of a country.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shǔ xiù gōng tíng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
syu2 sau3 gung1 ting4
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