The sparrow knows not the carving of the Osprey
Yanque does not know diao'e Zhi is a Chinese idiom, pronounced y à nqu è Q à zh à di à o è zh à, which means that ordinary people do not know the ambition of heroes. It is the same as "the swallow knows the swan's ambition.".
Idioms and allusions
[source]: Yuan Wumingshi's "playing in the river Pavilion" the second fold: "sparrow does not know diao'e Zhi, naughty boy does not understand laoxianji."
Discrimination of words
A bird knows the ambition of a swan
The sparrow knows not the carving of the Osprey
not even a blade of grass grows - cùn cǎo bù shēng
as fierce as the mouth of a snake or the sting of a bee - shé kǒu fēng zhēn
woman 's light and heavy make-up - dàn zhuāng nóng mǒ