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Vietnamese
Etymology
Short for bãi bể nương dâu. From a Chinese myth in which a goddess said she'd seen the sea turned into mulberry fields multiple times. The notion of 滄海桑田／沧海桑田 (cānghǎisāngtián, “the blue sea and the mulberry fields”) are consolidated in Vietnamese as a compound of bể (“sea”) + dâu (“mulberry”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bể dâu
- (rare, poetic) all the vicissitudes of human life
- Synonym: thăng trầm
1820, Nguyễn Du (阮攸), Đoạn trường tân thanh (Truyện Kiều), published 1866, lines 3–4:𣦆戈没局𣷭橷
仍調𬖉𧡊㐌𤴬疸𢚸- A turbulent mulberry-field-covered-by-sea period had passed.
The things that we saw still deeply pain our hearts.