赤地千里

- a thousand li of barren land -- a scene of utter desolation (after drought, pests, etc.); a thousand li of parched land; a thousand miles of cracked, parched and deserted land; Barren lands extend over thousands of miles.; For hundreds of miles around there was no cultivation.; For thousands of li wide stretches of land became a sterile wilderness.; Villages for hundreds of miles were laid waste.