the mountains are high and the water wide
It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is sh ā NY á ol ù Yu ǎ n, which means a long way. From "save filial piety and fight tiger".
The idiom comes from the wedge of Chen Yiren's "save filial piety and fight the tiger" in Yuan Dynasty: "the mountain is far away that can't be avoided."
Chinese PinYin : shān yáo lù yuǎn
the mountains are high and the water wide
Great achievements and great profits. fēng gōng hòu lì
beget a child at an advanced age. kū yáng shēng tí
thieves and police work together , as the cat and the rat sleep together. māo shǔ tóng rǔ