Burn the forest

Burn the forest

Burning the forest for all, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f é NL í NJI é Z é, which means burning the forest for all and fishing for all. The metaphor is only for immediate interests. From Li Xun Lun.

The origin of Idioms

On Li Xun by Qin Guan of Song Dynasty: "if you burn the forest to the ground, there will be no animals next year; if you fish with all your might, there will be no fish next year."

Idiom usage

After stealing and burning the forest, can the fish scare the birds away? Biography of Ming Sima Dan Ruo Zhang by Huang Zongxi in Qing Dynasty