The blind touch the candle

The blind touch the candle

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is m á NgR é nm é nzh ú, which means that it refers to judging things blindly only by one-sided understanding or local experience, which is the same as "blind wengmen". From the people's livelihood accuser.

The origin of Idioms

In the third section of the public opinion report against the people's livelihood doctrine: "the blind people touch the candle and think that the day is coming. If they want to warn them, they can't be exempted from the cost of words."

Idiom usage

It means to look at the problem and generalize the whole.

Examples

If we only rely on hearsay to judge a thing, its effect is the same as blind people touch the candle.

Idiom story

In ancient times, a born blind man asked people what the sun was like. They said 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. They told him that the sun was silent and had heat like a candle. He went home and took the candle as the sun. One day, he found that the instrument was very similar to a candle, and he thought it was the sun.