a lot of people died of hunger
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is è PI ǎ ozh ě NJI è, which means the people who died of starvation are overlapped vertically and horizontally. It describes the tragic scene in a year of famine. It comes from the marriage story of awakening the world, which was born in the Western Zhou Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
The 32nd chapter of "marriage of awakening the world" in Qing Dynasty: "the village is not hungry."
Idiom usage
The subject predicate type refers to the miserable scene in the year of famine
Analysis of Idioms
Hungry people everywhere
a lot of people died of hunger
the drunken singing and the usual dancing - hān gē héng wǔ
be frightened into complete silence but to exchange their hatred with eyes - dào lù yǐ mù
to pull together in times of trouble - tóng zhōu gòng jì