take hold of bushes and trees to pull oneself up

take hold of bushes and trees to pull oneself up

Climbing the vine, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is p ā NT é NGL ǎ ng ě, which means that the road is rugged and difficult to walk, and it can only move forward with the help of climbing power. It comes from Yuan Dynasty's Wu Mingshi's "secretly living in Chen Cang".

Idiom explanation

Describe the rugged road, must rely on the strength of climbing to move forward..

The origin of Idioms

In Yuan Dynasty, Wu Mingshi's the third fold of "living in darkness in Chencang": "under the Emei Mountain, climbing vine and picking woodcutter."