下乡 xiàxiāng HSK7 to go to the countryside Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 上山下乡 shàngshānxiàxiāng 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