There are too many people but not enough

There are too many people but not enough

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is R é NDU ō Qu è sh ǎ o, which means that there are more people seeking official positions but less vacancies. It's from Zhai Hao's popular edition: Shi Jin.

Idiom explanation

It refers to the fact that there are many people seeking official positions but few vacancies.

The origin of Idioms

Zhai Hao of the Qing Dynasty wrote in his popular edition Shi Jin: "there is a saying in Tang Zhao Jing's six comments on judges that" there are few people, but there are many, but there are few. "