All water and all mountains are poor

All water and all mountains are poor

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Shu ǐ J ì NSH ā nqi ó ng, which means that both the mountain and the water have come to an end. It means that there is no way to go and you are in a desperate situation. It's from Yu Wen Chang's Shinto tablet.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: the end of the mountain and the end of the river, the end of the mountain and the end of the river, the end of the mountain and the end of the river

The origin of Idioms

Yu Xin's "Yu Wen Chang Shen Dao Bei" in the Northern Zhou Dynasty: "when the mountains and rivers are broken, the horses are tied and the bridges fly."

Idiom usage

As predicate, attributive, object; refers to hopelessness. Chapter 16 of Liu e's travel notes of Lao can in Qing Dynasty: "as for the reason of being an official, we should investigate the poverty of every mountain and water; however, since that is the case, let him offer this for painting first."