烽烟四起

lit. fire beacons in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war

beacon fire

fire beacon (used as alarm signal over long distance)

cigarette or pipe tobacco / CL:根[gen1] / smoke / mist / vapour / CL:縷|缕[lü3] / tobacco plant / (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke

four / 4

to spring up everywhere / from all around

to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group

lit. fire beacons in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war