爬格子

爬格子

Literally means:

crawl across the checks

Actually means:

engage in writin

It means engaging in writing. In times when computers were not widely used, writers used to write on paper printed with squares, in which they write Chinese character he act of writing a full page of characters neatly is as painstaking and slow as crawling on the checks. So people use the phrase to highlight the pains of writing.

指写作。在不用电脑写作的时代，写文章的人通常都在印有小方格的稿纸上，把一个个汉字写到方格里。用工工整整的汉字写满一张稿纸，其动作就像在格子上爬行一样，既缓慢，辛苦。所以人们用一来说明写作的辛苦。