Hold the candle

Hold the candle

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is k ò up á nm é nzh ú, which means one-sided understanding of metaphor without getting the main point. From the Japanese metaphor.

The origin of Idioms

Su Shi, Song Dynasty, wrote in his "the metaphor of the sun" that "those who are born in the sun do not know the sun, and those who ask have a purpose. Or tell them: "the shape of the sun is like a bronze plate." The sound comes from the buckle. When I hear the clock, I think it's the same day. Or tell them: "the light of the sun is like a candle." Touch the candle to get its shape. In the future, I think the sun will be the same. "

Idiom usage

The metaphor is one-sided and has not got the gist.

Idiom story

In ancient times, a man who was born blind asked others what the sun was like. They told him that the sun was like a copper plate. When the blind man came home and found that the copper plate could ring, he mistook the sound of the bell for the sun. People around him laughed and told him that the sun had no sound but had heat like a candle. He went home and took the candle as the sun.