Our free Chinese learning series introduces idioms and proverbs. These timeless phrases hold valuable meanings and are worth studying. Today’s idiom is 「篳路藍縷」, detailed below.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「篳路藍縷」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
篳路: a firewood cart; 藍縷: tattered clothes. Driving a simple car and wearing tattered clothes, they went to open up the mountains and forests. Describes the hardships of starting a business.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bì lù lán lǚ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bat1 lou6 laam4 leui5
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