weigh firewood for cooking
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch ē NGX ī n é RCU à n, which means only pay attention to small things, not to big things. It comes from Huainanzi · Tai nationality training.
Idiom usage
Accumulating wealth and accumulating Valley, the days are endless. It's really a matter of cooking with rice.
The origin of Idioms
"Huai Nan Zi Tai Zu Xun" says, "if you pay high salaries and cook with rice, you can cure the small but not the big."
Idiom explanation
Salary: firewood; Cuan: cooking. Metaphor only pays attention to small things, not to big things.
Chinese PinYin : chēng xīn ér cuàn
weigh firewood for cooking
conversant with things present and past. tōng jīn bó gǔ
so hot on stones that gold might have melted there. shuò yù liú jīn
strike terror in one 's heart. hún fēi dǎn luò