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This feature highlights the idiom 「郊寒島瘦」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
It originally refers to the simple, solitary and rugged poetic style of Meng Jiao and Jia Dao. Later it was used to describe similar artistic conception in poetry and prose.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiāo hán dǎo shòu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gaau1 hon4 dou2 sau3
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