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For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「鄉壁虛造」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

That is, it is created out of thin air facing the wall. A metaphor for something that has no factual basis and is fabricated out of thin air.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xiāng bì xū zào

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

heung1 bik1 heui1 jou6

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