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Learn about the idiom 「紫氣東來」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Legend has it that before Laozi passed through Hangu Pass, Guan Yinxi saw purple air coming from the east and knew that a saint would pass through. Sure enough, Laozi came riding on a green ox. In the old days, it was a metaphor for auspicious omen.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zǐ qì dōng lái
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ji2 hei3 dung1 loi4
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