a lot of people(zhāng mèi chéng yīn)

a lot of people

Zhang Mei Chengyin, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is zh āā NGM è ICH é ngy ī n, which means opening the sleeve can cover the sky and make it cloudy. It describes many people. From Yanzi Chunqiu zaxiajiu.

The origin of Idioms

"Yanzi's spring and Autumn Annals, zaxiajiu:" Yanzi said to each other: "Qi's Linzi three hundred Lu, Zhang Mei into Yin, sweat into rain, shoulder to shoulder, why no one?"

Idiom usage

Used as an attributive; used of written language.

Idiom story

When Yanzi was sent to the state of Chu, the king of Chu took Yanzi's short stature as a laughing stock and said that there was no one in the state of Qi, so he sent Yanzi as an envoy. Yan Zi replied: "Zhang Mei is a man of three hundred Lu in Linzi of Qi Dynasty. He is sweating and standing shoulder to shoulder. Why is there no one?" That is to say, in Linzi, the capital of Qi, there are three hundred people. If they open their sleeves together, they can cover the sun and darken the sky. With a wave of sweat, they can make it rain. In the street, people are crowded, shoulder to shoulder (shoulder to shoulder: two shoulders together, here to describe many people), the tip of the foot touches someone else's heel, how can we say (QI) nobody?

Chinese PinYin : zhāng mèi chéng yīn