The pinyin of "Carp of the Crossing River" is guò jiāng zhī jì

From "Two Songs on the Birthday of Bamboo Stream" by Liu Kezhuang (刘克庄)："Try to count the number of people who have crossed the river, and who is there beyond the Stream Weng." . Comment: After the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Jiangnan, northern scholars came to Jiangnan, and it was said at that time that "there were more famous figures crossing the river than the carp". The metaphor is that there are more than enough of a certain fashionable thing. Later it is used to describe that there are a lot of fashionable people, but it mostly contains the meaning of blindly following the wind.

Usage

To be used as object; to describe many and chaotic .

Structure

Partial Formal

Emotional Color

Pejorative

Explanation

Metaphorically, it refers to the fact that there are many of a certain kind of fashionable things. It is later used to describe that there are a lot of fashionable people, but it mostly contains the meaning of blindly following the wind.

Example

Looking at the ~-like crowd, his face was flooded with disdain. ----? Zhu Zhenguo, "Through the City"

Sentence-making

Huge numbers of Chinese people like "crucian carp across the river" went to Japan for study or research, and among the uncountable streams of people, one can find the main pioneers of modern Chinese art and the figures of many famous artists.