see little of the world and hear little of what is going on outside
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Gu ǎ Ji à NSH ǎ ow é n, which means less listening and less seeing. It is said that knowledge is shallow and knowledge is not wide. It comes from the biography of Kuang Heng in the history of Han Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
Ban Gu's biography of Kuang Heng in the book of Han in the Eastern Han Dynasty said, "those who are clever and easy to understand should be disciplined by others, while those who are not familiar should be disciplined by others."
Idiom usage
It is not widely known. He is a man of little knowledge. In Wang Bao's four sons' theory of morality, it is said that "the slang people don't know, but they seldom know."
Chinese PinYin : guǎ jiàn shǎo wén
see little of the world and hear little of what is going on outside
a book that is shut is but a block. kāi juàn yǒu yì
a scene of bustling activity. lóng xiáng hǔ yuè
Three diseases and four pains. sān bìng sì tòng
Rely on courage to belittle the enemy. shì yǒng qīng dí
Eating jade and cooking pearls. zhuàn yù chuī zhū