be too numerous to count
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is g ē NGP ú n á NSH ǔ, which means that there are a lot of Confucianists, which can't be said all at once. It takes a long time to say one thing at a time, even if there are different people in the middle. There are a lot of people or things in the post form, which can't be counted. It's from the book of rites, Confucianism.
Idiom usage
There are many people or things that can't be counted. Example four or five li, straight to the south of Wufeng, then disordered peak tip stack, Shibo company, lateral change, almost ~. (Xu HongZu's travel notes of Xu Xiake, diary of his journey to western Guangdong, Ming Dynasty)
The origin of Idioms
"The book of rites · Confucianism" says: "the sudden number of things can not end, all of them are left, more servants can not end."
Chinese PinYin : gēng pú nán shǔ
be too numerous to count
Eat sweetly and sleep peacefully. shí gān qǐn níng
stick to a thing once begun. yī bū zuò,èr bù xiū
display one 's skill to the full. dà xiǎn shēn shǒu
be neither friendly nor aloof. ruò lí ruò jí