The fog is dark and the clouds are deep
It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is w à NY ú NSH à n, which means misty and remote. Metaphor is far away. It comes from the ode to Taohua in mouyu'er, Yulin.
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Feng of the Song Dynasty asked for the poem "the ode to the peach blossom in the mountains by the king Yulin, a fisherman": in the xuandu temple, there should be a lingering hatred, a trace of smoke. It's a sad place. I want to be in the dark and forget where I came from. "
The fog is dark and the clouds are deep
be difficult to have such a grand feast again - shèng yàn nán zài
rise up upon hearing the crow of a rooster and practise with the sword - wén jī qǐ wǔ