Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「漁陽鼙鼓」, explained here.
Here, we present the idiom 「漁陽鼙鼓」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
Yuyang: a place name, now Ji County, Hebei Province, where An Lushan stationed his troops during the Tang Dynasty; Pigu: a small drum used in the ancient army. War drums sounded in Yuyang County. It means that a war has taken place.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yú yáng pí gǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yu4 yeung4 pei4 gu2
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