The election results have settled — the new president has been confirmed.
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Visualize dust (尘埃) swirling chaotically in the air during turbulent times, then finally falling (落) and settling (定) — the turbulence is over and everything is clear.
Red Poppies — a celebrated 1998 novel by Tibetan author Alai (阿来), set in a Tibetan chieftain's household. It won the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2000 and brought the idiom into wide cultural use.
