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This introduction highlights the idiom 「馮唐白首」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Feng Tang served in three dynasties of the Han Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Wu, he was selected as a virtuous and capable person, but he was too old to hold an official position. Expressing regret for being born at the wrong time or expressing old age. Same as “Feng Tang is getting old”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
féng táng bái shǒu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fung4 tong4 baak6 sau2
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