Hongmaotai mountain(hóng máo tài shān)

Hongmaotai mountain

Hongmaotaishan, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h ó NGM á ot à ISH à n, which means that there is a great difference between the light and the heavy. From the book of Ren Shaoqing.

The origin of Idioms

Sima Qian of the Han Dynasty wrote in the book of reporting to Ren Shaoqing: "a person's inherent death is either heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than Hongmao, so it tends to be different."

Idiom usage

It refers to the great difference in the value of human death. If you have to choose a place to die, it is called hongmaotai mountain. There are different degrees of it. Though it is worth dying, I'm afraid you can't die. (Zhang Binglin's postscript on daring to die)

Chinese PinYin : hóng máo tài shān