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Learn about the idiom 「若烹小鮮」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
It means governing a big country is like cooking small fish. When cooking small fish, do not stir it too much as it will easily become rotten. This is a metaphor for the idea that governing a large country should be about doing nothing. It is often used to describe something easy.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
ruò pēng xiǎo xiān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yeuk6 paang1 siu2 sin1
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