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Introducing the idiom 「安土重舊」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

It means being nostalgic for one’s hometown and not easily changing old customs.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

ān tǔ zhòng jiù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

on1 tou2 jung6/chung5/chung4 gau6

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