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
stand on the edge of a pool and idly long for fish - lín chuān xiàn yú