remove mountains and fill seas(yí shān tián hǎi)

remove mountains and fill seas

The Chinese idiom y í sh ā NTI á NH ǎ I means to move mountains and fill the sea. It refers to the magic power of fairyland, and now it refers to the great power and courage of human beings to conquer and transform nature. From Eight Immortals crossing the sea.

The origin of Idioms

The second part of Ming Dynasty's Wumingshi's "Eight Immortals crossing the sea" says: "all the immortals have their own magical powers. They move mountains and fill the sea, and the water is dry. They teach you nowhere to hide."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate or attributive; used in writing. In the end, Faust was blind because of his worry, and in his blindness he imagined that he was engaged in the work of moving mountains and reclaiming the sea and the utopian scene of people living and working in peace and contentment in the new land. Guo Moruo's efforts to transform himself into a proletarian cultural worker

Chinese PinYin : yí shān tián hǎi