Zhāng Liáng céng zài Xiàpī de yí shàng yùjiàn yíwèi lǎorén.
Zhang Liang once met an old man on the bridge at Xiapi.
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history
Not used in modern Chinese, where 'bridge' is 桥. It survives almost entirely in the historical reference 圯上老人 (the old man on the bridge), the sage who tested Zhang Liang in the Records of the Grand Historian.
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Classical and historical only — found in old narratives and allusions, not in everyday language.
