rich content within a small compass

rich content within a small compass

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch ǐ f ú Qi ā NL ǐ, which means that a picture of one foot long is drawn into a scene of thousands of miles long; although the figure of analogy is small, it contains a lot of content. It comes from the biography of Zhaozhou in southern history.

The origin of Idioms

According to the biography of Zhaozhou in southern history, "you are eager to learn, literate and good at painting and calligraphy. You can feel thousands of miles away within a short distance of the mountains and rivers on the fan."

Idiom usage

The figure of speech is small in shape and big in connotation. However, there is no short story, which is thousands of miles away; there is no light purpose, which is thousands of miles away. In Qing Dynasty, he Shaoji discussed poetry with Wang Jushi. Poetry critics in Qing Dynasty think that "Wang's poetry is only 20 words, the main idea of the front cross has been exhausted, and the back cross has the potential of thousands of miles."