渤澥桑田

bó xiè sāng tián

Meaning

lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from 史记 Shǐ jì, Record of the Grand Historian); time brings great changes; life's vicissitudes

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渤bóswelling; the Bohai sea氵勃澥xiègulf; a blocked stream氵解桑sāngmulberry tree; surname叒木田tiánfield, farm, arable land; cultivated冂土