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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「詠嘲風月」, with more below.

Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「詠嘲風月」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.

Refers to writing that describes scenes such as wind, clouds, moon and dew but is poor in ideological content. Same as “Singing the Moon and Mocking the Wind”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǒng cháo fēng yuè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wing6 jaau1 fung1 yut6

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