desolate; shortage; scarce; out of practice; absurd; uncultivated; to neglect

funerals and famines

(literary) famine

(neologism, attested by 2016) TV drama drought; nothing good to watch

to be tolerant; to be forgiving; to conceal; to cover

to open up land (for agriculture)

to prepare against natural disasters

to open up land (for agriculture)

to lie idle (of arable land); fig. rusty because of lack of practice

to open up land (for agriculture)

to glean; to collect scraps; to eke out a meager living

natural disaster; famine

to clear waste land or forest by burning; slash-and-burn (agriculture)

abandoned land

shortage of electricity

alkali wasteland

famine; critical shortage of grain

wallowing in lust

savage; wild; uncivilized territory

to escape from a famine; to get away from a famine-stricken region

out-of-the-way places

the Great Northern Wilderness (in Northern China)

unprecedented; for the first time; never before; first ever

see 天荒地老[tian1 huang1 di4 lao3]