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Trad. 四旬齋
- Lent (Christian period of forty days before Easter)
Trad. 旬邑縣
- Xunyi County in Xianyang 咸陽|咸阳[Xian2 yang2], Shaanxi
- lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom)
- fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation
- in dire straits
Trad. 旬輸月送
- pay every ten days, give tribute every month (idiom); incessant and ever more complicated demands
