look at the sky through a tube

look at the sky through a tube

In Chinese, the Pinyin is y ǐ Gu ǎ Nku ī Ti ā n, which means to see from a small hole or crack. Looking at the sky through the hole of bamboo tube is a metaphor for narrow-minded seeing and hearing or one-sided looking at things. From Chuang Tzu autumn water.

Idiom explanation

Tube: bamboo tube; peep: looking through a small hole or crevice.

The origin of Idioms

Chuang Tzu autumn water in the Warring States period, Song Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty: "is it not small to use a tube to peep at the sky and a cone to point to the earth?"

Idiom usage

It means to look at the problem one sidedly. example the master's prescription is just like a glimpse of heaven. It's a good way to read. Sima Qian's biography of bianquecanggong in historical records

Idiom story

During the spring and Autumn period, Bian que, a famous doctor of Qi, passed through the Guo State. When he heard that the crown prince of Guo had died suddenly, he asked the middle-aged Prince about his symptoms and thought that the crown prince of Guo could only be saved by feigning death. If he didn't believe it, Bian que thought he was peeping at the sky and ignorant, so he put a needle on the prince's acupoint, and the prince came back to life. After the mediation of the decoction, he recovered completely 20 days later.