Practice halfway
Half way cultivation is an idiom, Pinyin is B à NL à Xi à x í ng, which originally means to become a monk or nun only after adulthood. It's a metaphor for changing one's career in the middle of a journey and taking up another job. It's from "a sketch of wanchuang · a Book of slang poems".
The origin of Idioms
See "becoming a monk on the way.".
Idiom usage
Begin to do sth in the middle of the way.
Examples
Mr. Mao lumen is good at writing at home He is fond of writing poems in the evening and calls himself ~. Ming Dynasty, Zhu Guozhen
Practice halfway
Mud Bodhisattva crossing the river - ní pú sà guò jiāng