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What do you mean "cross the pot and get on the kang"?

Refers to not following the rules.

"Get on the kang across the pot" is a folk proverb in northern China. There is a wall between the wok and the fire resistance, which separates the bedroom from the kitchen. Kang is in the bedroom, and the pot table is outside the kitchen.

It is not feasible to have a fire stop on the stove. It is a metaphor for not following rules and steps and trying to skip a link. Describe wanting to reach the sky in one step.

Workplace phenomenon:

There is a taboo in the workplace, called kang across the kitchen table. Usually refers to the behavior of crossing the immediate superior and interacting with the superior leader in the work. Or it refers to the practice of not following the rules when handling business, skipping the established steps and going straight to the final process in order to save trouble.

This is an unruly or unruly practice. Once someone is labeled as such, it is doomed to be excluded and suppressed in the workplace.