Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「席地幕天」.
Today, we explore the idiom 「席地幕天」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.
Use the earth as your mat and the sky as your curtain. Refers to lying on the ground in the open air.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xí dì mù tiān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jik6 dei6/dei2 mok6 tin1
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