(idiom) a traditional method of rice cultivation used in southern China involving burning weeds, flooding fields, and then weeding when the rice is partially grown

Plow the land deeply and weed the fields carefully; describes working hard at farming or putting great effort into cultivation; originally from Mencius [[孟子|孟子|meng4 zi3]].

An ancient or primitive method of farming that involves cutting down vegetation and burning it to fertilize the land before sowing crops.

to till the soil; to plow or cultivate land

to plow and weed the fields; to cultivate land