weigh firewood for cooking
It's a Chinese idiom, CH à ngch á I é RCU à n in pinyin, which means to make a fire and cook after weighing firewood. It is a metaphor for paying attention to details but not to the general. It's the same as "praising the good". It's from the fifth volume of "warning the world".
The origin of Idioms
Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty's "warning of the world" Volume 5: "accumulating wealth and gathering Valley, the day is too fast to give. It's really a matter of cooking with a few meters, and it's a matter of calling firewood a Cuan. "
Analysis of Idioms
A synonym: praising the good
Idiom usage
As a predicate or attributive; used of living in straitened circumstances
Chinese PinYin : chēng chái ér cuàn
weigh firewood for cooking
to work hard and live plainly and frugally. gōng kǔ shí dàn
Strong capital but weak branch. qiáng běn ruò zhī
allow oneself to be insulted to remain alive. rěn chǐ tōu shēng
a good omen for military operations. bái yú dēng zhōu