We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「秀才造反」.
Introducing the Chinese idiom 「秀才造反」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
Intellectuals are dissatisfied with reality and resist and fight.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xiù cái zào fǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sau3 choi4 jou6 faan2
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