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Introducing the idiom 「著手成春」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Get started: start. As soon as you touch it, it turns into spring. Originally it meant that poetry should be natural and fresh. Later it was used to describe a person with excellent medical skills, who would improve the condition as soon as the medicine was started.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhe shǒu chéng chūn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jeuk6 sau2 sing4 cheun1

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