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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「踐土食毛」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Refers to receiving the grace of the monarch; it also refers to daily life in general. Mao refers to the grains, vegetables and other plants growing on the land.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiàn tǔ shí máo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chin5 tou2 sik6 mou1/mou4
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