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Changge: singing with long voice, also refers to writing poetry; Dang: should be done. Use long singing or writing poetry instead of crying to express the grief and indignation in your heart.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhǎng gē dāng kū
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
cheung4 go1 dong3/dong1 huk1
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