Cutting the East and the West
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d ō NGK ǎ nx ī Zhu ó, which means to cut the East and kill the west, and fight on all sides. It comes from the volume of Pinghua of the Qin Dynasty and the six kingdoms.
The source of the idiom is in the volume of "Pinghua of the Qin Dynasty merging the six Kingdoms": "Han Guangsha will kill in the future, chop the East and the west, disperse the stars, and continue to break the taro."
Cutting the East and the West
pins awry and hair in disorder - chāi héng bìn luàn
dissipated young sets who take a fancy to lewdness - yóu fēng làng dié