remove mountains and fill seas

remove mountains and fill seas

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Qi à NSH à NY à ng à, which means digging mountains to fill valleys. It comes from the historical records of Qin Shihuang.

The origin of Idioms

"In the 35th year of the reign of the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, in addition to Dao, Dao Jiuyuan arrived at Yunyang and went straight to it." According to the biography of Mengtian in historical records, "the first emperor wanted to travel all over the world, and went straight to Ganquan through Jiuyuan, which made Mengtian pass from Jiuyuan to Ganquan, and cut mountains and valleys for thousands of miles."

Analysis of Idioms

The valley and the mountain

Idiom usage

Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty wrote "the great Liao River" in shuijingzhu: "Liaoxi was stronger than Datong, which was favored by the yuan family. Therefore, yuan still returned to it and suffered a lot. He came out of Lulong and lived in the valley for five hundred Li."