there were snakes and vipers creeping around among the dragons -- the high and low were mixed together(lóng shé hùn zá)

there were snakes and vipers creeping around among the dragons -- the high and low were mixed together

This is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is l ó ngsh é h ù NZ á, which means that good people and bad people mix together. It comes from the Dunhuang Bianwen anthology Wu Zixu Bianwen.

The origin of Idioms

Wu Zixu Bianwen, a collection of Dunhuang Bianwen: "soap and silk are hard to separate, dragons and snakes are mixed."

Idiom usage

It refers to the mixture of good and bad people. Examples in Wenshu, a biography of lanterns in Jingde, written by Shi Daoyuan of Song Dynasty: "where Saints live together, dragons and snakes mingle." Chapter 93 of the romance of the gods by Xu Zhonglin of Ming Dynasty: at this time, the dragon and the snake are mixed, and there is no distinction between right and wrong. Does an know that our generation is not Jiang Shangzhi? The general had to be suspicious. Chapter 9 of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty: "when there are many people, there will be a mixture of dragons and snakes, including indecent people. "Chapter 25 of the biography of heroes and Heroines:" when we take this road, we will not be the identity of a girl's family any more because of the endless dirt, dragons and snakes. " Chapter 38 of the biography of heroes and Heroines: "I am the governor of the Imperial College, in charge of the supervisors of the seventeen provinces in the world. “

Chinese PinYin : lóng shé hùn zá