wén
shān
huì
hǎi

idiom
common
formal

Meaning of 文山会海

文山会海 means mountains of documents and seas of meetings; excessive bureaucratic paperwork and conferences. Pronounced wén shān huì hǎi.

  • mountains of documents and seas of meetings; excessive bureaucratic paperwork and conferences

Definitions & Examples

men
yào
jīng
jiǎn
wén
shān
huì
hǎi
 
ràng
céng
gàn
gèng
duō
jīng
tóu
dào
shí
gōng
zuò
zhōng
 

We must vigorously reduce mountains of paperwork and seas of meetings, allowing grassroots cadres to devote more energy to practical work.

Zhěng
tiān
yān
zài
wén
shān
huì
hǎi
zhōng
 
yǒu
shí
jiān
shēn
qún
zhòng
diào
yán
 

Drowning in paperwork and meetings all day long, where is the time to go deep among the masses for research?

Zhè
chǎng
huì
guò
shì
wén
shān
huì
hǎi
de
xíng
shì
zhǔ
biǎo
xiàn
 

This meeting is nothing but a manifestation of formalism in the bureaucratic morass of paperwork and conferences.