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风展红旗如画

風展紅旗如畫
fēngzhǎnhóngqírúhuà
phrase

Meanings

  1. 1 the wind unfurls the red banners — a scene like a painting
  2. 2 (fig.) a rousing, picturesque image of revolutionary army / victory
  3. 3 (lit.) wind — unfurl — red — banner — like — painting

Examples

游行队伍浩浩荡荡，风展红旗如画。
Yóuxíng duìwǔ hàohàodàngdàng, fēng zhǎn hóngqí rú huà.
The procession flowed on grandly — 'the wind unfurling red banners like a painting.'
他写诗描绘那一刻：风展红旗如画。
Tā xiě shī miáohuì nà yīkè: fēng zhǎn hóngqí rú huà.
He wrote a poem describing that moment: 'the wind unfurled the red banners like a painting.'

Tips

history
From 毛泽东《如梦令·元旦》 (Mao Zedong, 'Yuandan,' New Year 1930), composed on the march through western Fujian: 宁化、清流、归化，路隘林深苔滑。今日向何方？直指武夷山下。山下山下，风展红旗如画 (Ninghua, Qingliu, Guihua — narrow roads, deep forests, slippery moss. Where bound today? Straight to the foot of Wuyi Mountain. Mountain's foot, mountain's foot — wind unfurls the red banners like a painting). One of Mao's most anthologized ci, frequently printed in PRC textbooks and set to music.
usage
Canonically preceded by the doubled 山下，山下. 红旗 refers to Red Army banners; the line is used to evoke any procession with flags catching wind, but the political register (Red Army / revolutionary) is unmistakable.

Stroke Order

风 fēng
展 zhǎn
红 hóng
旗 qí
如 rú
画 huà