xiāng chuán
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    v.according to legend; tradition has it that ...; legend has it that ...

    • xiāng chuán zhè lǐ shì mù guì yīng de diǎn jiàng tái

      相传这里穆桂英点将

      According to legend, this place used to be where Mu Guiying, a female general, summoned her officers and assigned them tasks.

    • xiāng chuán cǐ chù shì dàng nián kǒng míng jì fēng chǔ

      相传此处当年孔明

      According to legend, this is where Kong Ming supplicated the wind.

    • xiāng chuán zhè jiàn shì fā shēng zài jǐ bǎi nián qián

      相传发生

      Tradition has it that the event took place hundreds of years ago.

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    v.hand down or pass on from one to another

    • zhè xiē gù shi dài dài xiāng chuán

      这些故事相传

      The stories have been handed down from generation to generation.

    • zhè shì kǒu shòu de chuán tǒng kǒu ěr xiāng chuán

      口授传统相传

      It was an oral tradition principally, from ear to ear-mouth to mouth.

    • chéng wéi hǎi yuán shì tā jiā shì dài xiāng chuán de zhí yè

      成为海员世代相传职业

      Following the sea is the tradition of his family.