赤地千里 meaning in Chinese

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