deep maternal love(yàn kǔ tūn gān)

deep maternal love

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y à NK à t à ng à n, which means to swallow bitterness and swallow sweetness. It comes from the third book of butterfly dream by Guan Hanqing of Yuan Dynasty.

Source: the third fold of "butterfly dream" by Guan Hanqing of Yuan Dynasty: "thinking of me, I swallow bitterly, pregnant in October, breast feeding for three years."

Chinese PinYin : yàn kǔ tūn gān