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The Chinese idiom we are introducing this time is 「四書五經」. You can find its meaning and application outlined below.
The Four Books: also known as the Four Books of the Masters, namely “The Great Learning”, “The Doctrine of the Mean”, “The Analects of Confucius” and “Mencius”; the Five Classics: “The Book of Songs”, “The Book of History”, “The Book of Rites”, “The Book of Changes” and “The Spring and Autumn Annals”. Refers to Confucian classics.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
sì shū wǔ jīng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sei3 syu1 ng5 ging1
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