上山下乡
Traditional form:
上山下鄉
Pinyin (reading):
shàngshānxiàxiāng
Definitions:
- to work in the fields (esp. young school-leavers)
- forced agricultural experience for city intellectuals
Characters:
- 上 - above, on top, superior; to go up; to attend; previous
- 山 - mountain, hill, peak
- 下 - below, underneath; inferior; to bring down; next
- 乡 - country, village; rural
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