people starved to death are everywhere(è piǎo zǎi dào)

people starved to death are everywhere

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is è PI à oz à ID à o, which means that the road is full of bodies of people who died of hunger. Describes the famine disaster is serious, a large number of people died of hunger and cold. It is the same as "the hungry carry the road" and "the hungry fill the road". It comes from Qian Yong's Lu Yuan Cong Hua, old news, Xi Shi duo Xian in Qing Dynasty.

Idiom explanation

莩: people who starve to death. Carrying road: full road. The road was full of bodies of people who had died of hunger. Describes the famine disaster is serious, a large number of people died of hunger and cold. It is the same as "the hungry carry the road" and "the hungry fill the road".

Idiom usage

There are starving people everywhere. Along the way, it stinks. A journey to Chenglan in the northwest corner of China

The origin of Idioms

In Qian Yong's notes on walking in the garden, Volume I, old news, Xi's many sages in Qing Dynasty, it is said that "locusts do not rise in drought, but hunger carries the Tao. 」

Chinese PinYin : è piǎo zǎi dào