in succession
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin, is "Zhang ǒ NGJ ì Xi ā ngji", which means to describe a large number of people. It comes from the miscellaneous records of Xiaoting · Liang Tidu by Zhao Yao of Qing Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
In the miscellaneous records of Xiaoting · Liang Tidu written by Zhao in the Qing Dynasty, "since Cong Lan's overlapping peaks, he dug the road with a knife, and each soldier had an iron nail in his arms. He followed the trail and climbed up the nail."
Idiom usage
It refers to many people
in succession