精耕细作

精耕細作
jīnggēngxìzuò
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 intensive and meticulous farming (idiom)
  2. 2 careful, painstaking cultivation
  3. 3 (fig.) to work with attention to detail

Examples

Nóngmín jīnggēngxìzuò, shōuchéng nián nián tígāo.
The farmers till carefully and intensively, and yields rise year by year.
Zuò nèiróng yě yào jīnggēngxìzuò, bù néng cūzhìlànzào.
Content work also needs careful cultivation — you can't just churn things out.

Tips

culture
Originally describes traditional Chinese smallholder agriculture — small plots farmed with painstaking labor instead of extensive mechanization. The metaphor now covers any craft requiring care: editorial work, product design, regional marketing.
usage
Positive. Contrast with 粗制滥造 (shoddy mass production) and 广 (plant wide, reap thin). In business writing, ('deep cultivation of a market') is a closely related modern spin-off.

Stroke Order

jīng
gēng
zuò