天地玄黄 (天地玄黃) tiān dì xuán huáng

tiān dì xuán huáng phrase the sky was dark and the earth was yellow
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: The first line of the Thousand Character Classic 千字文 (CC-CEDICT '天地玄黃'; Wu and Tee 2015, loc. 23)

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• Scroll 29 Supplement to Records of the Transmission of the Lamp 續傳燈錄 — count: 1