insignificance
In Chinese, Pinyin is p á ngzh ī m ò Ji é, which means metaphor is not important. From the story of the fire.
The source of the idiom is Liang Bin's "the story of spreading fire" 47: "for Feng Guitang, whether Feng laolan lives in the world or not has long been a sidelight."
insignificance
be confused like a tangle of flax - máng wú duān xù