It's a bit of a joke(lí běn qū mò)

It's a bit of a joke

In Chinese, Pinyin is l í B ě NQ ū m ò, which means to lose the root and pursue the end. It comes from Xu Gan's Zhonglun Kao pseudo in Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Han XuGan's Zhonglun Kao pseudo: "in order to poison the people of the world, it is necessary to depart from the original and interesting, and make things false."

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: abandon the essence and pursue the end

Idiom usage

It means to lose the root and pursue the end

Chinese PinYin : lí běn qū mò