people are hurrying to and fro(dōng lái xī qù)

people are hurrying to and fro

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d ō NGL á IX ī Q ù, which means coming from the East and going to the West. It describes people who come and go and don't know each other. It's from Guan Men Liu.

The origin of Idioms

Li Shangyin, Tang Dynasty, wrote in Guanmen Liu: "it's hard for people to come and go from east to west. It's not to reduce the dust on the road for Qingyang."

Discrimination of words

It's not easy to sell or buy on the bridge. The twenty third volume of Yu Shi Ming Yan by Feng Menglong in Ming Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : dōng lái xī qù