The original intention of cutting Chinese chives is that Chinese chives need to be harvested during the vigorous growth period. As a popular online vocabulary, it refers to that in the stock market, some institutions, funds and large households sell their stocks, which leads to a sharp drop in the stock market, and then create new opportunities to open positions, and then re-open positions at a low level, so as to repeatedly gain profits, while ordinary investors, like Chinese chives, will inadvertently buy the stocks being operated, lose money and let them slaughter.

In rice circles, fans are often cut into leeks by their favorite beans. Star brokerage companies use fans' love for their idols to make fans buy products endorsed by consumer idols, or star artists bring goods, make fans pay, squeeze and stimulate fans' consumption, and treat fans as cash machines. After cutting this crop of fans, they will continue to cut leeks after a while.

In addition to stock market terms, leek also means cannon fodder on the internet. When describing a thing that requires a lot of cannon fodder and practitioners, and it is usually meaningless, or the controller can profit from it, it can be used to cut leek.