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不见当年秦始皇

不見當年秦始皇
bùjiàndāngniánQínShǐhuáng
phrase

Meanings

  1. 1 the First Emperor of Qin is nowhere to be seen anymore
  2. 2 even the mighty emperor is gone with time
  3. 3 Mao Zedong's 1954 line on the transience of imperial power

Examples

"魏武挥鞭，东临碣石有遗篇……萧瑟秋风今又是，换了人间"——不见当年秦始皇，改天换地。
'Wèi Wǔ huī biān, dōng lín jiéshí yǒu yí piān… Xiāosè qiūfēng jīn yòu shì, huàn le rénjiān' — bù jiàn dāngnián Qín Shǐhuáng, gǎitiān huàndì.
Cao Cao cracked his whip, left his poem at Jieshi... The bleak autumn wind blows once more, but the human world has changed — the First Emperor of Qin is nowhere to be seen.
登长城，遥想不见当年秦始皇。
Dēng Chángchéng, yáoxiǎng bù jiàn dāngnián Qín Shǐhuáng.
Climbing the Great Wall, one imagines from afar that the First Emperor is no longer to be seen.

Stroke Order

不 bù
见 jiàn
当 dāng
年 nián
秦 Qín
始 shǐ
皇 huáng