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

barter the trunk for the branches

In Chinese, Pinyin is Q ù B ě NQ ū mॸ, which means abandoning agriculture and doing business. It is the same as "going from the beginning to the end". It comes from Huainanzi Ben Jing Xun.

The origin of Idioms

In Huainanzi benjingxun written by Liu An of the Western Han Dynasty, "in the past, Cangjie wrote books, but the rain and the ghosts cried at night." Gao Yinzhu of Han Dynasty If deception and hypocrisy arise, they will go to the end and abandon farming to gain more profits. "

Idiom usage

As predicate, object, attribute; used to choose

Chinese PinYin : qù běn qū mò