Forget to eat and forget to sleep(wàng cān fèi qǐn)

Forget to eat and forget to sleep

Forget to eat, forget to sleep, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is w à NGC à NF è IQ à n, meaning forget to sleep, not to eat; describes to work or study with concentration or selflessness. From the romance of the Western chamber.

The origin of Idioms

The first fold of the fourth book of the romance of the Western chamber by Wang Shifu of Yuan Dynasty: "forget to eat, waste to sleep, comfort and harm. If you don't really endure, how can you hook up this Acacia and make it happy."

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate, attributive and adverbial to describe people's hard work. Example: in Yuan Dynasty, Guan Hanqing's the injustice of Dou'e, the first fold: when will two kinds of children forget to eat and sleep? Wang Shifu's the romance of the Western chamber (Volume 3, Volume 4): when you send someone to bed, you forget to eat and sleep. When you fold your temples, you feel sad and your waist feels sick. Yuan · Wu Mingshi's the joy in front of the palace_ Zheng Yuanhe, Zheng: when you broaden your clothes, you can earn a lot of money. Forget food and sleep, all for parting. Chapter 25 of Cao Xueqin's a dream of Red Mansions in Qing Dynasty: pinger and Xiren are more than others who cry and forget to eat and sleep, looking for life and death. Aunt Zhao, Jia Huan, and others are willing to do so.

Chinese PinYin : wàng cān fèi qǐn