Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「擊鼓鳴金」—details below.
Discover the idiom 「擊鼓鳴金」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
In ancient times, when two armies fought, they used drums and golden bells to issue orders. Beating drums meant advancing, and sounding golden bells meant retreating.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jī gǔ míng jīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gik1 gu2 ming4 gam1
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