still water runs deep(dà zhì ruò yú)

still water runs deep

Da Zhi Ruo Yu is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is d à zh à Ru à y ú. It means that a really intelligent person looks stupid on the surface. To describe a person with great wisdom whose speech act is regarded as dull because he is beyond ordinary people's comprehension. It's from he Ouyang Shaoshi Zhishi Qi.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] great skill is like clumsiness, open mindedness is like a valley, not showing one's edge, deep hidden is like a valley

The origin of Idioms

In Su Shi's he Ouyang Shaoshi Zhishi Qi, great courage is like timidity, great wisdom is like stupidity.

Idiom usage

Subject predicate type; used as predicate, attributive, clause; refers to the intelligent person who does not show his ability. Lao Tzu, the great form has no shape. Great sound is hard to hear. Xue Fucheng, "Yong An's notes, historical materials two. Luo Wen Zhong Gong's love": "all the virtues are always supportive and effective, but how long is it?" in the Lao Tzu and Zhou Xun, "still water runs deep, but the great is not so stupid, the big sound is loud, the elephant is invisible". In Zhang Binglin's on the new party and in Ming and Li Zhi's burning of books, Volume 3, Mr. Li Zhongxi's report, it is said that "to build up the confluence of rivers, we must strive to make it bigger; to build up the earth and stone, we must strive to make it stronger.". Therefore, great wisdom is like a fool. "Great wisdom is like a fool".

Chinese PinYin : dà zhì ruò yú