Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「寓兵於農」, explained here.
Discover the idiom 「寓兵於農」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
寓: to reside, to contain. It means giving farmers certain military training, farming in peacetime and participating in wars in wartime. Or it refers to military settlement.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yù bīng yú nóng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yu6 bing1 yu1 nung4
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