Drilling mountains and blocking seas
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Zu à NSH à ns à IH à I, which means doing extremely difficult things. From Sha Ting's gold rush II.
The origin of Idioms
Sha Ting's "gold rush" 2: "as long as you do, I always come to one."
Idiom usage
Used as an attributive or adverbial; used in writing
Drilling mountains and blocking seas
combine indigenous and foreign methods - tǔ yáng jié hé
kindly in appearance but unfathomable at heart - hòu mào shēn qíng
cut off from the long to add to the short - póu duō yì guǎ
serve the people and the society - jì shì jiù rén
The road is high and the hope is heavy - dào gāo wàng zhòng