Here’s a free resource for learning Chinese. This series focuses on idioms and proverbs, useful for various expressions. Today’s topic is 「一倡三歎」, as shown below.
Here’s the idiom 「一倡三歎」, with its definition and practical application described below.
It refers to one person singing and three people joining in the harmony. Later it was often used to describe music and poetry that are beautiful, full of lingering taste, and worthy of great admiration. Chang, also written as “chang”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī chàng sān tàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 cheung1 saam1 taan3
The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.
