Four barren and eight extreme(sì huāng bā jí)

Four barren and eight extreme

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is s ì Hu ā NGB ā J í, which means remote places in all directions. It comes from the picture of eight steeds and the table of heaven and virtue at the beginning of Shouchun Festival.

The origin of Idioms

Bai Juyi's poem "the painting of eight steeds" in Tang Dynasty: "the four wilds and eight extremes, trampling all over, thirty-two hooves without rest." In Du Guangting's shouchunqiu into the Yuan Dynasty Tianzun frame and merit Shubiao: "four barren and eight extreme, Bi Zhi Chen Zhen."

Idiom usage

As subject, object, attribute; used in writing.

Chinese PinYin : sì huāng bā jí