a motley crew

a motley crew

Mob, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is w ū J í zh ò ng, which means mob. It refers to a group of people who are improvised and unorganized. From the theory of Six Dynasties.

The origin of Idioms

In the treatise on the Six Dynasties written by Cao Peng, Wei of the Three Kingdoms, it is said that "the Han ancestors fought hard with the sword of three feet to drive away the mob and became the imperial industry in five years."

Idiom usage

In the biography of Yu FANZHUAN in the annals of the Three Kingdoms written by Chen Shou of Jin Dynasty, it is said that the Ming government used the mob to disperse the adherents