gally(bù máo zhī dì)

gally

Barren land, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ù m á ozh ī D ì, which means barren land without vegetation and crops. Describe a place as desolate and barren. It comes from the biography of Gongyang, the twelfth year of Xuangong.

Idiom story

At the end of the spring and Autumn period, the state of Zheng, which occupied the central position of the world, was caught between the two powers of Jin and Chu. He was in a dilemma. He could only see whose fist was hard and listen to whose. In the spring of 597 BC, because of the alliance between Zheng and Jin, King Zhuang of Chu led a large army to fight. On the one hand, Zheng appealed to Jin for help, on the other hand, he resisted desperately. The Chu army besieged the capital of Zheng State (now Xinzheng City of Zhengzhou) for three months. Seeing that the rescue troops of Jin state were not coming, and that there were no soldiers to fight in the city and no food to eat, Zheng Xianggong could no longer stand the fist of King Zhuang of Chu. He had no choice but to open the city gate and surrender with bare arms, flag lowering in his left hand and Luan sword in his right hand. Seeing the king of Chu Zhuang who came to accept surrender, Zheng Xianggong said: "I am a small frontier minister who has no talent. I have caused great disaster and made the king condescend to our small city. If the king can have mercy on me, an ominous man, and give me a piece of barren land so that I and some old ministers can live in peace, we will follow his orders. " In the south, the hometown of miasma and pestilence, the prime minister took the important task of Junheng, but it was not appropriate to go on an expedition. (the 87th chapter of romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty) so he crossed Lu in May and went deep into Bumao. (Chu Shi Biao by Zhuge Liang)

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] barren grass, barren mountains and rivers, remote areas [antonym] fertile land, land of fish and rice, land of abundance

Idiom usage

The shepherd who planted trees here was once a barren land, but now it has become an oasis.

The origin of Idioms

"The barren land of tin (Grant)" in the twelfth year of Xuangong, the biography of Gongyang

Chinese PinYin : bù máo zhī dì