Seek truth from the roots
It is a Chinese idiom, and its pinyin is j ī B ě nqi ú Yu á n, which comes from the third part of the book with Wang Chunfu by Wang Shouren of Ming Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
The third part of Wang Shouren's book with Wang Chunfu in Ming Dynasty: "the learning of later generations is trivial and fragmented. It's just the so-called picking and drawing. In the meantime, it's better to have no small supplement, but in the end, it's not the learning of accumulating the foundation and seeking the origin. Every sentence is the combination of words."
Idiom usage
To act as an object or attributive
Seek truth from the roots
one 's criminal conspiracy was unmasked - dōng chuāng shì fàn
all over the mountains and plains - màn shān biàn yě
human events are as uncertain as the weather - rén shì cāng sāng
a little gift for comfort is better than nothing - wèi qíng shèng wú