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Let’s dive into the idiom 「龍飛鳳舞」. Its definition and application are outlined below.

Originally used to describe the winding and majestic nature of a mountain, it later came to describe the powerful, flexible and stretched strokes of calligraphy.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

lóng fēi fèng wǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

lung4 fei1 fung6 mou5

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