Zhànluàn niándài, duōshǎo rén dōu chéng le zhuǎnpéngshēn.
In those years of war, so many people became drifters.
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蓬 is the tumbleweed-like herb that rolls with the wind when it dries. 转蓬 appears across Tang poetry (Cao Zhi, Du Fu, Bai Juyi) as the classic image of rootless wandering. Literary, not conversational.