leave the light and plunge into darkness

leave the light and plunge into darkness

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Q ì m í NGT ó u à n, which means to abandon the bright, right, and turn to the dark and wrong way; contrary to the meaning of "abandoning the dark and turning to the light", it also means "turning back the light and turning to the dark". From the biography of lanterns in Jingde.

The origin of Idioms

In Song Dynasty, Shi Daoyuan's "Jingde Zhuandeng Lu" Volume 11: "you have no beginning to rob, carry the light and cast the dark."

Idiom usage

Today, with a fake book and no detailed investigation, he abandoned the light to the dark and took a bad name for himself. What a fool! The thirty seventh chapter of romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty