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映月读书
yìng​yuè​dú​shū

to study by moonlight

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映月读书/ 映月讀書 yìng​yuè​dú​shū to study by moonlight

To study hard despite poverty; based on the story of Jiang Mi who, being too poor to afford lamps, used the light of the moon to read at night.

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