rise before dawn
The Chinese idiom, m è ID à NCH é nx à ng, means to get up before dawn. It's hard to fall asleep because of hard work or worry. It comes from the book of Jin, Emperor Jian Wen Ji.
Analysis of Idioms
Early in the morning and late in the evening
Idiom usage
If he was captured by the king of Zhao and moved to Fangling, Bo Xinnian, a stranger in the morning, farewell to concubines and beauties, bereavement of Jinyu and Yucheng, a place where he wanted to drink and filled with sorrow, it would be hard to overcome resentment. The Han Fu by Liang Jiangyan in the Southern Dynasty
The origin of Idioms
"Jin Shu · Jian Wen Di Ji": "why don't you forget to go to bed at night?"
rise before dawn
heaped up earth becomes a mountain - tǔ rǎng xì liú
Dancing Phoenix and flying dragon - wǔ fèng fēi lóng
see with the ear and hear with the eye -- very intelligent - ěr shì mù tīng
turn sb . 's trick to one 's own use - jiāng jì jiù jì
Stretch your head and shrink your neck - shēn tóu suō jǐng