明修棧道,暗渡陳倉
Chinese
- clear; bright; to understand; next; the Ming dynastyto decorate; to embellish; to repair; to build; to study; to write; to cultivate
plank road built on wooden brackets fixed onto the face of a cliff dark; gloomy; hidden; secretto cross; to pass through; to ferry Chencang trad. (明修棧道,暗渡陳倉) 明 修 棧道 , 暗 渡 陳倉 simp. (明修栈道,暗渡陈仓) 明 修 栈道 , 暗 渡 陈仓 Literally: “repair the plank road openly while secretly crossing [the Wei River] at Chencang”.
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