Thousands of mountains and rivers
Pronunciation qiān shān wàn shuǐ
Interpretation describes many mountains and rivers, metaphorically speaking, the road is dangerous and far away. It is also called "thousands of mountains and rivers"; "Thousands of rivers and thousands of mountains".
From the poem "Sending a Friend to an Old Friend in Weiyang" by Zhang Qiao of the Tang Dynasty: "Farewell to the willow branches by the river, thousands of mountains and thousands of rivers and beautiful women are far away."
Example sentences
A question from the Tang and Song Dynasties: "When I saw Du Shenyan at Duanzhou Post and Shen Quanqi wrote a poem on the wall, it became a chant": "I don't know that there are many roads in Nanzhongqi and thousands of mountains and rivers."
Yuan Wang Shifu's " The third chapter of the fourth book of "The Romance of the West Chamber": "The capital is an official and a half-office, and it is blocked by thousands of mountains and rivers."
Li Ying's poem "A Red Cloud": "Through thousands of mountains and rivers, you will never forget it." Where did it come from? What kind of fatigue did you endure in the wind and rain?"
Qing Hongsheng's "Palace of Eternal Life": "I only know that a light soul and a weak soul can fly, but who knows about thousands of rivers and mountains? "Turn to repair on the way."
Used as an object and attributive; to describe the difficulty of the journey, "Mountains and Flowing Waters", is one of the top ten ancient Chinese songs. Legend has it that Boya, a harp master in the pre-Qin Dynasty, was playing the harp in the barren mountains and wilderness, and the woodcutter Zhongzi Qi Qi could actually understand that this was a description of "lofty ambitions in high mountains" and "foreign ambitions in flowing water". Boya was surprised and said: "How good, your heart is the same as mine." After Zhong Ziqi's death, Bo Ya lost his heart. A bosom friend will break the strings of his harp and never play again, so there is the song "High Mountains and Flowing Waters". "High Mountains and Flowing Waters" is a metaphor for a close friend or bosom friend, and also a metaphor for the wonderful music. There is a TV series of the same name "High Mountains and Flowing Waters". (Traveling) Mountains (Playing) Water (Jin) Mountains ( Fen) water