trivial knowledge

trivial knowledge

Qia Ping Zhi Zhi is a Chinese idiom, pronounced Qi è P í ngzh ī, which refers to shallow knowledge, unable to understand the truth. It comes from Zuo Zhuan, the seventh year of Zhao Gong.

interpretation

Pull out the bottle: a bottle used to draw water. It can't hold much water.

source

In the seventh year of Zhaogong in Zuozhuan: "although you have the knowledge of holding out a bottle, you can not keep the false utensils and be polite." Zhao ceyi, the strategy of the Warring States period, said: "a man has his own words. He holds out his bottle of knowledge (wisdom) and does not lose his weapon."

usage

Be the object of; refer to shallow knowledge.

Little wisdom in a bottle