look for the tip of the branch while give up the trunk of the tree
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s ǔ Nb ě nzh ú m ò, which means abandoning the root and focusing on the minor. It comes from the biography of Li Er in Sui Dynasty.
Analysis of Idioms
Abandon the essence and pursue the end
[rhyme words] soul stirring, being affected by disaster, leaping and crouching, dispelling doubts and doubts, not as good as using one's skill, turning the boat at the sight of the wind, full of Diao cicadas, at a loss, losing one's mind
Idiom usage
It means putting the cart before the horse.
Examples
You are going after the end at the expense of the root.
Idioms and allusions
In the early years of the dynasty, Li Er, the imperial censor of Zhishu, wrote well and had good eloquence. He worried about the influence of the gorgeous style of writing in the northern and Southern Dynasties, and that the people who only paid attention to gorgeous words, chanting the wind and mocking the moon would be put in important position because of this, which was to lose the root and pursue the details. The imperial court was unable to select real talents, and his petition was not taken seriously.
The origin of Idioms
The biography of Li Er in the book of Sui states: "therefore, the style of writing is becoming more and more complicated, and its administration is becoming more and more chaotic.
Chinese PinYin : sǔn běn zhú mò
look for the tip of the branch while give up the trunk of the tree
Sea alliance and mountain curse. hǎi méng shān zhòu
a wild horse running about without reins. yě mǎ wú jiāng
heart startling and gallbladder trembling -- be deeply. xīn jīng dǎn zhàn