lose sleep and forget to eat from anxiety , etc.

lose sleep and forget to eat from anxiety , etc.

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is f è IQ à NW à ngsh í, which means that you can't sleep and forget to eat. It's about concentration and effort. From Liezi Tianrui.

The origin of Idioms

"Liezi Kairui chapter:" there are people in Qi who worry about the collapse of heaven and earth, who are sent by their death, and who waste their sleep and food. " The preface of Qushui poem written by Wang Rong of Qi Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty: "it is still clear that the bed is abandoned, and the meal is forgotten by the sundial."

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate, attributive and adverbial to describe people's hard work. My wife's support for me deepened my deep love for my wife, and she was more considerate of me than ever when she saw that I forgot to eat and sleep and worked hard to tackle key problems. In order to consolidate and develop the red regime in Northeast Jiangxi, Fang Zhimin fought for the revolution regardless of his serious lung disease. Li Jisheng forgot to eat and sleep and devoted all his mind to understanding this difficult problem.

Analysis of Idioms

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Idioms and allusions

In Wang Rong's preface to Qushui poetry in the southern and Northern Dynasties, it is said that "the Ming Dynasty still has a place to waste sleep; the sundial forgets to eat." Yan Zhitui's Yan Family Precepts in the southern and Northern Dynasties: "the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty revived his love and study in Jiangjian and Jingjian; summoned and set up students; became a professor in person; forgot to eat and sleep; and continued the dynasty all night." Confucius was a thinker, statesman and educator in the late spring and Autumn period. He was the founder of Confucianism. When Confucius was old, he began to travel around the world. When he was sixty-four years old, he came to yeyi (now near Yexian County in Henan Province), the feudal land of Shen Zhuliang in the state of Chu. Shen Zhuliang, commander of the state of Chu, warmly received Confucius. Shen Zhuliang was known as Ye Gong. He only heard that Confucius was a famous thinker and statesman. He taught many excellent students and didn't know much about Confucius himself. So he asked Zilu, a student of Confucius, about Confucius. Although Zilu followed Confucius for many years, he didn't know how to answer for a moment, so he didn't say a word. Later, when Confucius learned about this, he said to Zilu, "why don't you answer him:" Confucius is a man who studies hard and doesn't get tired of it. He even forgets to eat, enjoys teaching and preaching, and never worries about poverty and suffering. He keeps improving himself and even forgets his age. " What about that? " Confucius' words show that his life is very full because of his lofty ideals.