Here’s a free resource for learning Chinese. This series focuses on idioms and proverbs, useful for various expressions. Today’s topic is 「楚館秦樓」, as shown below.
Here, we present the idiom 「楚館秦樓」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
Chu Pavilion: King Ling of Chu built the Zhanghua Palace and selected beauties to enter the palace; Qin Tower: Qin Mu Gong’s daughter Nong Yu was good at playing the flute, so Duke Mu built a tower for her to live in. Refers to a place called a singing and dancing brothel.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
chǔ guǎn qín lóu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
cho2 gun2 cheun4 lau2
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