羯鼓催花 Save Sign in to save words jiégǔcuīhuā ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄍㄨˇ ㄘㄨㄟ ㄏㄨㄚ drumming to make apricots flower, cf joke by Tang Emperor Xuanzhong 唐玄宗, playing the drum in apricot blossom Character by character 羯(jié)Jie people, a tribe of northern China around the 4th century 鼓(gǔ)drum 催(cuī)urge 花(huā)surname Hua A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0