剖腹藏珠

lit. cutting one's stomach to hide a pearl (idiom) / fig. wasting a lot of effort on trivialities

to cut open / to analyze / Taiwan pr. [pou3]

to cut open the abdomen / to disembowel / to speak from the heart

abdomen / stomach / belly

Tibet / abbr. for Xizang or Tibet Autonomous Region 西藏[Xi1 zang4]

to conceal / to hide away / to harbor / to store / to collect

storehouse / depository / Buddhist or Taoist scripture

bead / pearl / CL:粒[li4],顆|颗[ke1]