weigh firewood for cooking

weigh firewood for cooking

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch à NGX à n é RCU à n, which means to call firewood cooking; metaphor only pays attention to small things, not to big things. It comes from Huainanzi · Tai nationality training.

Idiom explanation

Salary: firewood; Cuan: cooking.

The origin of Idioms

"Huai Nan Zi Tai Zu Xun" says, "if you pay high salaries and cook with rice, you can cure the small but not the big."

Idiom usage

It is often used with "cooking with rice". examples accumulating wealth and accumulating Valley, the days are endless. It's really a matter of cooking with rice. (Ming · Feng Menglong's "warning of the world" Volume 5) Tang Dynasty's "court and field financial records": "Wei zhuangpo studies, cooks with rice, praises one's salary and feels it after one's salary."