📖 Meaning
Refers to countless tall and precipitous mountain ridges stretching over a vast area. It describes terrain crowded with high, steep peaks and ranges, evoking a sense of grandeur, wildness, and remoteness.
📜 Origin Story
The idiom comes from the modern revolutionary memoir 'Give Everything to the Party' (把一切献给党) by Wu Yunduo (吴运铎), a renowned explosives expert and model worker of the People's Republic of China era. In the chapter 'In the Mine' (在矿井里), he describes the mine's aerial cableway crossing over the cluster of lofty ridges. Unlike classical idioms with ancient textual sources, this phrase was coined in the author's contemporary prose and later entered common use as a four-character idiom.
💡 Example Usage
火车穿行在丛山峻岭之间，窗外景色壮美如画。
The train wound its way through the towering ridges and clustered mountains, with a magnificent landscape unfolding beyond the window.
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🔤 Quick Facts
- Chinese: 丛山峻岭
- Pinyin: cóng shān jùn lǐng
- Literal Translation: clustered mountains, lofty ridges
- Category: Distance
- Characters: 4