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For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「江淹才盡」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Jiang Yan of the Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties was famous for his literary talent at a young age and was known as Jiang Lang. There were no good lines in his poems and essays in his later years, and people of his time said that he had lost his talent. Later it was often used to describe the decline of creativity.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiāng yān cái jìn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gong1 yim1 choi4 jeun6
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