shàng​shān​xià​xiāng

Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside

  • created sense approved 上山下乡/上山下鄉 · shàng​shān​xià​xiāng · Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    上山下乡 / 上山下鄉

    shàng​shān​xià​xiāng

    Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside

    movement from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s where urban school-leavers [[知青|知青|zhi1 qing1]] were sent to rural areas for labor

    上山 (literal) → 上山 · shàng​shān · to go up a mountain 下乡 (literal) → 下乡/下鄉 · xià​xiāng · to go to the countryside

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense

  • created sense approved 上山下乡/上山下鄉 · shàng​shān​xià​xiāng · to go to the countryside — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    上山下乡 / 上山下鄉

    shàng​shān​xià​xiāng

    to go to the countryside

    to go to work in rural areas or at the grassroots level

    上山 (literal) → 上山 · shàng​shān · to go up a mountain 下乡 (literal) → 下乡/下鄉 · xià​xiāng · to go to the countryside

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense