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Examples:Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt reform the Qing dynasty—nine periods of nine days each after winter solstice, the coldest time of the year—Anti-Rightist Movement, Mao's purge of "rightists" after the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended in 1957—lit. stake a thousand pieces of gold on one throw (idiom); throw away money recklessly—It takes ten years nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom). A good education program takes a long time to develop.—one word worth a thousand in gold (idiom); valuable advice—A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); A stitch in time saves nine.—the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists)—fifty-third year C5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1976 or 2036—thirty ninth year I3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1962 or 2022—G8 (group of eight major industrialized nations)—the Hundred Schools of Thought, the various schools of thought and their exponents during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC)—strict poetic form with eight lines of 5, 6 or 7 syllables and even lines rhyming—one command brings a hundred responses (idiom); having hundreds of attendants at one's beck and call—thirty fourth year D10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1957 or 2017—third and fourth lines (in an eight-line poem) which form a couplet—evil deeds spread a thousand miles (idiom); scandal spreads like wildfire—"eight pieces of brocade," a set of qigong exercises with assumed medical benefits—twenty (20), in a limited number of set expressions—Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the thirty-fifth President of Brazil—a hundred flowers bloom (idiom); let the arts have free expression—fifty seventh year G9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1980 or 2040—Qianlong or Ch'ien-lung, emperor of the Qing dynasty, reigned sixty years (1735-1796)—fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return their roots (proverb)— |