渤澥桑田
Traditional form:
渤澥桑田
Pinyin (reading):
bóxièsāngtián
Definitions:
- lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from 史記／史记 ( Shǐjì), Record of the Grand Historian); time brings great changes
- life's vicissitudes
Characters:
- 渤 - swelling; the Bohai sea
- 澥 - gulf; a blocked stream
- 桑 - mulberry tree; surname
- 田 - field, farm, arable land; cultivated
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