地处荒蛮之地
“lies in a harsh and barbarous land.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这墕国呀
“Yan State”
地处 荒蛮之地
“lies in a harsh and barbarous land.”
他们
“They are”
“They are just uncivilized primitives from the middle of nowhere.”
The traditional Sino-centric worldview where the central civilization looked down upon border states as wild and culturally inferior 'barbarians'.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
located in; situated at
A formal and literary term used to describe geographical location.
wild, uncivilized, and desolate land
A formal idiom used to describe remote frontier territories devoid of orthodox culture.