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For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「星移物換」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
The stars move: the stars shift; things change: the scenery changes. The scenery changed and the positions of the stars moved. A metaphor for the changes of time.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xīng yí wù huàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sing1 yi4 mat6 wun6
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