many officials and dignitaries
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Gu à ng à IR ú y ú n, which means to describe a lot of officials. From Xidu Fu.
Idiom explanation
Cap: cap and car cover of ancient officials. It refers to officials and is used as a substitute for officials.
The origin of Idioms
Ban Gu's Ode to Xidu in the Han Dynasty: "the crown is like a cloud, the seven phases and five gongs."
Idiom usage
There were many officials who came to the meeting. It was a minister who passed through the case. Shen De Fu's Wan Li Ye Huo Bian Ji Qian Sheng in Ming Dynasty
many officials and dignitaries
Half doubting and half believing - bàn yí bàn xìn
use every means to have an innocent person pronounced guilty - shēn wén zhōu nà
circumstances change with the passage of time - shuǐ liú yún sàn