往事越千年

wǎngshìyuèqiānnián
phrase

Meanings

  1. 1 past events span a thousand years
  2. 2 a millennium has passed since then
  3. 3 Mao Zedong's sweeping opening on historical time

Examples

'Wǎngshì yuè qiān nián' yī jù, bǎ shìyě lā dào le Hàn mò Sān Guó.
The line 'past events span a thousand years' pulls the gaze all the way to the end of Han and the Three Kingdoms.
Zhàn zài Qínlíng qián, zhēn yǒu wǎngshì yuè qiān nián zhī gǎn.
Standing before the Qin tomb, one truly feels a thousand years of past events sweeping by.

Stroke Order

wǎng
shì
yuè
qiān
nián