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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「雞犬升天」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
Legend has it that after Liu An, the King of Huainan in the Han Dynasty, became an immortal through cultivation, he scattered the remaining medicine in the yard. The chickens and dogs ate them and ascended to heaven. Later it was used to illustrate that when a person becomes an official, the people related to him will also gain power.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jī quǎn shēng tiān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gai1 hyun2 sing1 tin1
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