cut the weeds and dig up the roots

cut the weeds and dig up the roots

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch ǎ NC ǎ och ú g ē n, which means cutting grass roots. It is a metaphor to get rid of the root of the trouble so as to avoid future trouble. From Zuo Zhuan, the sixth year of Yin Gong

The origin of Idioms

It is said in Zuo Zhuan, the sixth year of seclusion: "those who serve the country see evil, just as the farmer's duty is to go to the grass, and they should respect it. They have their own roots, so they should not be able to colonize."

Idiom usage

Example half a life with branches and leaves, in the past, I went through all the empty flowers, and in one day, I came to the end. Tao Zongyi, Ming Dynasty