burn a candle to lengthen the midnight oil in hard study

burn a candle to lengthen the midnight oil in hard study

Burning plaster is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f é ng ā OJ ì Gu ǐ, which describes hard work and study day and night. From Jin Xue Jie.

Idiom usage

Serial verb; predicate, adverbial, clause; with commendatory meaning

The origin of Idioms

Han Yu's Jin Xue Jie in the Tang Dynasty: "burning ointment oil to continue sundial, constant Wu Wu to poor years."

Idiom story

Han Yu is a famous scholar in Tang Dynasty. He is one of the eight great scholars in Tang and Song Dynasty. He has a good command of six classics and 100 schools of learning. He advocates Confucianism and advocates ancient prose. Like other Chinese scholars, Han Yu also hopes to be valued by the imperial court and show his ambition and talent. When he was young, he became a scholar. But because he was not suitable for officialdom, he had been ups and downs in his official career all his life. He felt quite frustrated. This work "Jin Xue Jie" was written in such a mood. In the article, Mr. Guozi (Han Yu claimed that he had been a doctor of Guozi for ten years) admonished his students: "you must study hard in order to be successful. Knowledge and morality are good, and we are not afraid to be buried in the future. " Before the words were finished, a student questioned and said: "teacher, don't cheat us! For such a long time, I think you have been proficient in the six arts. You still can't put it down every day. You light the lights every night and come to study during the day. What happened? Just because their ideas are not in line with those in power, they are excluded and not reused by those in power, resulting in a miserable life. You have such an experience of your own, and you even want us to concentrate on learning! " On the one hand, Han Yu satirized that politicians could not make good use of talents, and on the other hand, he expressed his loss of not being able to cherish talents. The idiom "burning plaster after sundial" evolved from here. It describes reading day and night. It is also used to describe continuous work or activity. Also known as "jisundial burning paste", "burning paste jisundial".