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
But in the mid-1950s, Mao began launching his doomed experiments: the brief Hundred Flowers liberalization, which resulted in persistent "indiscipline" in the party ranks, and the Great Leap Forward, which was an economic fiasco.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Birthday of a Hundred Flowers" falls upon the fifteenth of the second spring-moon.
From Some Chinese Ghosts by Hearn, Lafcadio
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