Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「萬古長春」, with details below.
This feature highlights the idiom 「萬古長春」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Eternal: thousands of years, forever. It’s always like spring, with green grass and full of vitality. It is a metaphor for the human spirit being as unfading as spring or a wish for good things to last forever. Also known as “Eternal Green”, “Eternal Green”, “Eternal New”
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wàn gǔ zhǎng chūn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
maan6 gu2 cheung4/jeung2 cheun1
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