South to North

South to North

Sailing South and riding north, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is n á NH á NGB ě IQ í, which means riding a boat and running north and south. It's from Huainanzi, the folk precepts of Qi Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

"The Hu people are convenient for horses, and the Yue people are convenient for boats," says the folk precepts of Qi in Huainanzi

Idiom usage

Used as an object or attribute; used in writing. For example, in HSI Wan and Ying pin Kung, I traveled to both capitals. I traveled from south to north. I was very diligent, so I was exhausted. Preface to the six chapters of Zhang Ru Ren, the son of Shouhu, written by Wu Chengen in Ming Dynasty