weigh firewood for cooking

weigh firewood for cooking

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch ē NGX ī n é RCU à n, which means only pay attention to small things, not to big things. It comes from Huainanzi · Tai nationality training.

Idiom usage

Accumulating wealth and accumulating Valley, the days are endless. It's really a matter of cooking with rice.

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 explanation

Salary: firewood; Cuan: cooking. Metaphor only pays attention to small things, not to big things.