- 饿莩遍野 èpiǎobiànyě starving people everywherestarving people are everywhere; a state of famine; a widespread disaster where bodies of those who died of hunger cover the land
- 饿莩载道 èpiǎozàidào starved corpses fill the roads(idiom) a scene of widespread famine where the bodies of those who died from starvation are everywhere