上山下乡 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 上山下鄉 shàngshānxiàxiāng ㄕㄤˋ ㄕㄢ ㄒㄧㄚˋ ㄒㄧㄤ to work in the fields (esp. young school-leavers) forced agricultural experience for city intellectuals Character by character 上(shàng)up 山(shān)surname Shan 下(xià)down 乡(xiāng)country or countryside A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0