barter the trunk for the branches(bèi běn jiù mò)

barter the trunk for the branches

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B è IB ě NJI ù mॸ, which means to deviate from the root and pursue the last part. It comes from the biography of Lu Kai in the annals of the Three Kingdoms.

The origin of Idioms

In the biography of Lu Kai in the annals of the Three Kingdoms, the annals of Shu, it is said, "what is the beginning and the end of Wu Yue

Idiom usage

As a predicate or attribute.

Examples

That's the end of the story.

Chinese PinYin : bèi běn jiù mò