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
successive distresses as caused by continual wars - bīng ná huò jié
a great man becomes famous late in life - dà qì wǎn chéng