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Here’s the idiom 「窮而後工」, with its definition and practical application described below.
In the old days, it was believed that the poorer and more frustrated a scholar was, the better his poetry and prose would be.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qióng ér hòu gōng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
kung4 yi4 hau6 gung1
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