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This feature highlights the idiom 「戲彩娛親」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

A metaphor for filial piety to parents.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xì cǎi yú qīn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hei3 paai3 yu4 chan1

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