study by the light of burning rice bran

study by the light of burning rice bran

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is R á NK à ngz à zh à o, which means diligent and studious. From the biography of Gu Huan in southern history.

The origin of Idioms

Gu Huan biography of Southern History: "in the countryside, there is a school house. Huan is poor and has no job. He leans on the wall of the house and listens. There is no one who forgets. Evening is burning pine reading, or burning chaff“

Idioms and allusions

During the Southern Dynasties, there was a child named Gu Huan who was very studious. Because my family is poor, I can't go to the school in the countryside. But he did not relax himself. He went to the back of the school all day to listen to his teacher's lectures, and he never forgot what he heard. At night, they light up pine branches or burn rice chaff to get light and study without interruption. After years of hard work and self-study, Gu Huan has finally become a versatile and useful person. Taiping Guangji (volume 175li Qi) records that Li Qi in the Tang Dynasty lit rice bran or firewood to get light while guarding his mother's tomb. He studied hard at night and finished thousands of books. Later generations take "burning chaff and taking care of oneself" as the allusion of diligent study.