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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「握發吐飧」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
It is a metaphor for the country’s respect for wise and virtuous people and its earnest pursuit of talent. Same as “holding hair and spitting out food”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wò fā tǔ sūn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ak1 faat3 tou3 syun1
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