grasp a typical example and you will grasp the whole category

grasp a typical example and you will grasp the whole category

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch ù L è I é RT ō ng, which means to master the knowledge or law of something, and then infer the knowledge or law of the same thing. From Shuo Ying.

The origin of Idioms

In volume 77 of Shuo Ying, Li Zhiyan of the Song Dynasty quoted Shoufu, a view of Donggu, as follows: "if one's thoughts are correct, then all good things can be understood by analogy; if one's deeds are good, then all good things sprout here."

Analysis of Idioms

By analogy

Idiom usage

As a predicate or attribute; used in learning. As an example, master is more than a hexagram for an elephant, but he has a different meaning to show the scholar and make it understand by analogy. This is also the theory of exemplification. One of Gu Yanwu's on the book of changes with friends in Qing Dynasty