xiàqí
to work in the fields in summer
夏畦 xiàqí
- to work in the fields in summer
- (literary) to work hard in the fields during the hot summer; often used as a metaphor for toiling in labor
- to flatter
- (literary) to fawn over or flatter others; originally from a passage in Mencius comparing the physical strain of forced laughter to the exhaustion of working in summer fields