Hundred Flowers
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Hundred Flowers
Translation of Chinese bǎihuā ( qíf àng ) literally, (let bloom) a hundred flowers
Example Sentences
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Commercial success did eventually catch up with Feinstein, via his late-career experiments with scanography, as he termed it, which led to the publication of seven coffee-table books beginning with One Hundred Flowers in 2000.
From The Guardian ● May 5, 2019
As a student, he took part in the Hundred Flowers campaign in which Mao encouraged citizens to air grievances with the party.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2016
One night she prepares an elaborate banquet in the Hundred Flowers Pavilion for an evening the emperor has promised will be intimate.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2014
In Hong Kong the British-owned China Mail said angrily that Lei's arrest proved that "free speech is as dangerous in Formosa as it was shown to be during the Hundred Flowers campaign on the mainland."
From Time Magazine Archive
I should like my house also to be named "The Palace of the Hundred Flowers."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 22, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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