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

barter the trunk for the branches

In the Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Q ù B ě NJI ù mॸ, which means abandoning agriculture and doing business. It comes from the book of Han, geography.

Idiom explanation

It refers to abandoning agriculture to do business.

The origin of Idioms

Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty wrote in the book of Han geography annals: "the prefectures and states converged, and there were many floating eaters, and the people went from the beginning to the end."

Chinese PinYin : qù běn jiù mò