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Let’s dive into the idiom 「斂後疏前」. Its definition and application are outlined below.
It means that a thorough formation is solid, while a loose formation of the vanguard is conducive to combat. The later generations summarized this principle of land battle formation in ancient my country as “concentrated at the back and sparse at the front”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
liǎn hòu shū qián
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
lim5 hau6 so1 chin4
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