be too numerous to count

be too numerous to count

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is g ē NGP ú n á NSH ǔ, which means that there are a lot of Confucianists, which can't be said all at once. It takes a long time to say one thing at a time, even if there are different people in the middle. There are a lot of people or things in the post form, which can't be counted. It's from the book of rites, Confucianism.

Idiom usage

There are many people or things that can't be counted. Example four or five li, straight to the south of Wufeng, then disordered peak tip stack, Shibo company, lateral change, almost ~. (Xu HongZu's travel notes of Xu Xiake, diary of his journey to western Guangdong, Ming Dynasty)

The origin of Idioms

"The book of rites · Confucianism" says: "the sudden number of things can not end, all of them are left, more servants can not end."