see little of the world and hear little of what is going on outside

see little of the world and hear little of what is going on outside

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Gu ǎ Ji à NSH ǎ ow é n, which means less listening and less seeing. It is said that knowledge is shallow and knowledge is not wide. It comes from the biography of Kuang Heng in the history of Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Ban Gu's biography of Kuang Heng in the book of Han in the Eastern Han Dynasty said, "those who are clever and easy to understand should be disciplined by others, while those who are not familiar should be disciplined by others."

Idiom usage

It is not widely known. He is a man of little knowledge. In Wang Bao's four sons' theory of morality, it is said that "the slang people don't know, but they seldom know."