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Here’s the idiom 「家雞野雉」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Pheasant: pheasant. The original meaning is that Jin Gengyi compared his calligraphy to a domestic chicken and Wang Xizhi’s calligraphy to a wild chicken, to show the difference between the cheap and the precious. It also refers to calligraphy and painting with different styles.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiā jī yě zhì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ga1 gai1 ye5 ji6
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