Seeking roots and pulling up trees
Searching for roots and uprooting trees, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is x ú ng ē Nb á sh ù, which means cutting grass and roots. It is a metaphor to get rid of the root of the trouble so as to avoid future trouble. From the orphan of Zhao.
The origin of Idioms
Ji Junxiang's the orphan of the Zhao family in Yuan Dynasty (the fourth part): "I hate tu'an and jia'napu. I'm looking for roots and uprooting trees. I've sent my family to ruin."
Idiom usage
As an object or attribute; used in figurative sentences.
Seeking roots and pulling up trees
get throught a thing carelessly - cǎo cǎo liǎo shì
a student 's long years of academic studies - shí zǎi hán chuāng
pay attention to one 's own moral uplift without thought of others - dú shàn qí shēn