benighted

benighted

In Chinese, Pinyin is Gu ǎ Nku ī L í C è, which means to look at the sky from a bamboo tube and measure the sea with a ladle. It means to observe and understand things narrowly and unilaterally. It's from the difficult answer to customers.

Analysis of Idioms

A blind man feels an elephant, sits in a well and looks at the sky from a perspective

The origin of Idioms

Dong Fang Shuo's answer to a guest's difficulty in Han Dynasty: "how can you see the sky from a perspective, measure the sea from a perspective, and strike the bell with a bell? How can you understand its order, study its literary theory, and pronounce its sound?"

Idiom usage

Combined; as subject, predicate and object; with derogatory meaning. From the perspective of examples, we can see that it is crude. Liang Qichao's preface to the bibliography of Western learning in the Qing Dynasty and Ban Gu's biography of Dongfang Shuo in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "how can we see the sky from a perspective, measure the sea from a perspective, and strike the bell with a bell? How can we understand its order, study its literary theory, and make its sound?" We must not draw conclusions and make comments on the basis of our investigation.

Idioms and allusions

Dongfang Shuo was a litterateur in the Western Han Dynasty. He is humorous and good at Fu. Although Dongfang Shuo was very talented, he was not highly valued by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. For this reason, he wrote an article called "answering the guest's difficulties" to express his feelings of being unable to meet his talents. In his article, he first expressed his opinions in the tone of guests, and proposed that both Su Qin and Zhang Yi could be high officials, while Dongfang Shuo was more talented and loyal than them. How could he be only a servant Lang Guan now? Dongfang Shuo replied that Su Qin and Zhang Yi were born in the spring and Autumn period when the vassals were fighting against each other, so their talents could be exerted and their strategies could be adopted, You get a high position. The world is unified, the political power is stable, and talented people have nowhere to show their talents. If Su Qin and Zhang Yi were in this era, it would be difficult for them to develop. How dare they hope to be a servant? Dong Fangshuo said that even so, talented people should pay attention to self-cultivation and cultivate noble character. Finally, he said, "how can we understand the whole sky, examine the turbulent waves of the sea, and stimulate the bell to ring when we observe the sky with bamboo tubes, measure the sea with Li, and strike the bell with bamboo branches?"