[沧海桑田 / 滄海桑田, cāng hǎi sāng tián, ㄘㄤ ㄏㄞˇ ㄙㄤ ㄊㄧㄢˊ]lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (成语 saw); time brings great changes; life's vicissitudes#42797[Add to Longdo]
[曾经沧海 / 曾經滄海, céng jīng cāng hǎi, ㄘㄥˊ ㄐㄧㄥ ㄘㄤ ㄏㄞˇ]lit. once experienced the vast ocean(成语 saw); fig. widely experienced in the vicissitudes of life; cf. to have known the world#48688[Add to Longdo]
[そうかいそうでん, soukaisouden](exp) The word is a scene of constant changes (as the blue sea changing into a mulberry field). (Chinese legend)[Add to Longdo]