limited knowledge or experience

limited knowledge or experience

Cicadas don't know snow, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch á Nb ú zh ī Xu ě, which means that a cicada is born in summer and dies in autumn and can't see snow. It comes from the theory of salt and iron.

The origin of Idioms

In Huan Kuan's on salt and iron Xiangci of Han Dynasty, "if you don't believe what you don't see, it's like a cicada who doesn't know Xuejian."

Idiom usage

It means that people don't know much about it. You are so ignorant.