all rivers flow to the sea

all rivers flow to the sea

Baichuan Guihai, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ǎ ichu ā NGU ī h ǎ I, which means that many rivers flow into the sea. It refers to the trend of the times or people's expectation. It also refers to the gathering of many scattered things in one place. From Huainanzi · Si Lun Xun.

The origin of Idioms

"Huainanzi · Si Lun Xun" says: "all rivers are of different origins, but all belong to the sea."

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms: the trend of the times, the expectation of the people Antonyms: split, betrayal and separation

Idiom usage

Subject predicate; as an object; describes the accumulation of scattered things.

Examples

After hundreds of rivers returned to the sea, the long-term wind and rain was in Jiangdong. ——Yu Temple by Mao Qiling in Qing Dynasty