the mountain falls and the earth gives way(shān bēng dì xiàn)

the mountain falls and the earth gives way

Collapse, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ā Nb ē NGD ì Xi à n, meaning mountains collapse, the earth collapse. From the romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong of Ming Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Chapter 94 of romance of the Three Kingdoms written by Luo Guanzhong of Ming Dynasty: "suddenly, there is a sound, like the collapse of a mountain and the subsidence of a ground. All the Qiang soldiers fall into the pit."

Idiom usage

Shi Yin's intention also followed him. When Fang stepped up, he heard a thunderbolt. It was like ~. The first chapter of Cao Xueqin's a dream of Red Mansions in Qing Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : shān bēng dì xiàn