Search for roots

Search for roots

It is a Chinese idiom with the pronunciation of P á OSH ù s ō UG ē n, which means to investigate the details.

Idioms and allusions

[source] Chapter 23 of biography of heroes and heroines by Wen Kang of the Qing Dynasty: "as for Liegong, listening to this book is nothing more than making a scene, and reading it is nothing more than looking at it. Really, why don't you spare no time to search for the root of the useful spirit

Discrimination of words

[usage] used as predicate, object, attribute; used to explore the problem; synonym; trace back to the source; degree of common use: general emotional color: commendatory words; idiom structure: combined type; generation time: Modern