终南

終南
Zhōngnán
popculture

Meanings

  1. 1 Zhongnan Mountains (south of Xi'an)

Examples

Zhōngnán Shān zìgǔ shì yǐnshì xiūdào de dìfang.
The Zhongnan Mountains have since ancient times been a place where hermits practiced the Dao.
Tā cízhí hòu pǎo qù Zhōngnán Shān yǐnjū le.
After quitting his job, he ran off to live in seclusion in the Zhongnan Mountains.

Tips

culture
终南 (Zhōngnán Shān, Zhongnan Mountain) lies just south of Xi'an in Shaanxi and is one of the most famous hermitage ranges in China — Daoist masters, Buddhist monks, and modern dropouts have all sought refuge there.
history
The phrase 终南捷径 (zhōngnán jiéjìng, 'Zhongnan shortcut') comes from a Tang scholar who feigned reclusion on the mountain to attract imperial attention — a sly route to office disguised as withdrawal from the world.

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