weigh firewood for cooking

weigh firewood for cooking

It's a Chinese idiom, CH à ngch á I é RCU à n in pinyin, which means to make a fire and cook after weighing firewood. It is a metaphor for paying attention to details but not to the general. It's the same as "praising the good". It's from the fifth volume of "warning the world".

The origin of Idioms

Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty's "warning of the world" Volume 5: "accumulating wealth and gathering Valley, the day is too fast to give. It's really a matter of cooking with a few meters, and it's a matter of calling firewood a Cuan. "

Analysis of Idioms

A synonym: praising the good

Idiom usage

As a predicate or attributive; used of living in straitened circumstances