sit with the light in one 's hand till morning
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B à ngzh ú D à ID à n, which means to hold a lighted candle in the morning until dawn. From Chen Tuan Gao wo.
Analysis of Idioms
Sit and wait
The origin of Idioms
The fourth fold of "Chen Tuan Gao Wo" by Ma Zhiyuan in Yuan Dynasty: "what a Mr. Gu Pai, it's still the wall, the clothes, the bed, the candlelight!"
Idiom usage
He is in a state of urgency. Qu Shifu was so happy that he ordered the rest of the veterans to drink and spend the night grinding the empty city with Zhang Tong. (Chapter 14 of the biography of Zhang Juzheng by Zhu Dongrun) Chapter 25 of the romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty: "Guan Gong stands outdoors with a candle in his hand. He reaches the dawn at night without any tiredness."
sit with the light in one 's hand till morning
The high and the low are changeable - guì jiàn wú cháng
so subtle as to be difficult to guess what comes next - shén miào mò cè