things seldom seen are strange

things seldom seen are strange

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh à Oji à NDU à Gu à I, which means that people who have little knowledge feel strange when they encounter unusual things; later, it is often used to laugh at people who have little knowledge. From Mou Zi.

The origin of Idioms

Mou Rong's "Mou Zi" in Han Dynasty: "seeing less, seeing more strange, seeing a camel is called a swollen horse's back."

Idiom usage

It refers to little knowledge.

Examples

In the book baopuzi Shenxian written by Ge Hong in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it is said that "if a man sees less, he will find more strange things, and the world is always the same."

People say that it's more strange when you see less, but it's still so strange when you see more. (Chapter 86 of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in Qing Dynasty)

Idiom story

Liu Zongyuan, a essayist in the Tang Dynasty, was demoted to Yongzhou, Hunan Province as a Sima because of Wang Shuwen's defeat. He was very moved when he received Wei Zhongli's letter of teacher worship in Yongzhou. He immediately wrote back to the book "Dao Shu of Li Lun Shi in Wei Zhong" to express a point of view: it's common to see less and make more mistakes, just like the case of Shu dog barking at the sun.

Analysis of Idioms

My humble opinion

Antonym: see more, see more, see less