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This introduction highlights the idiom 「妖由人興」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Monsters are born from humans. It means that abnormal things are caused by people’s own lack of seriousness and integrity.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yāo yóu rén xìng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yiu2 yau4 yan4 hing1
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