饱经沧桑

飽經滄桑
bǎojīngcāngsāng
idiom #84,847

Meanings

  1. 1 to have weathered many vicissitudes
  2. 2 to have lived through major changes
  3. 3 seasoned by life

Examples

Lǎorén bǎo jīng cāng sāng, liǎn shàng bùmǎn le zhòuwén.
The old man had weathered many storms; his face was covered in wrinkles.
Zhè zuò chéngshì bǎo jīng cāng sāng, jiànzhèng le lìshǐ de biànqiān.
This city has lived through many changes and witnessed the course of history.

Tips

memory
沧桑 is short for 沧海桑田 ('blue sea into mulberry fields') — a Daoist image of radical transformation. = 'thoroughly experienced.' So: 'thoroughly seasoned by seas-into-fields changes.'

Stroke Order

bǎo
jīng
cāng
sāng