Hundred Flowers

noun

1. the 1957 political campaign in the People's Republic of China to encourage greater freedom of intellectual expression, initiated by Mao Zedong under the slogan “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”

Word History and Origins

Origin of Hundred Flowers¹

Translation of Chinese bǎihuā ( qíf àng ) literally, (let bloom) a hundred flowers