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Here’s the idiom 「撒豆成兵」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Scatter the beans and they become an army. Legend has it that scattering beans is a kind of magic that can transform into an army. A kind of magic spell mentioned in old novels and operas.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
sā dòu chéng bīng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
saat3 dau2 sing4 bing1
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