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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「下陵上替」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
Those below dominate those above, while those above are idle and do nothing. It means that there is a loss of order between superiors and subordinates, and disciplines are abolished. Ling, the same as “Ling”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xià líng shàng tì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ha6 ling4 seung5/seung6 tai3
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