Look at the outside and know the inside(wàng biǎo zhī lǐ)

Look at the outside and know the inside

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is w à ngbi à ozh à L à, which means to infer the essence by observing the surface of things. From the ode to the West.

The origin of Idioms

Pan Yue, Jin Dynasty, wrote in his ode to the Western Expedition: "you can either wear your hair on your left lapel and work hard in the mire, or you can learn from the outside with ease."

Idiom usage

It's used as predicate and attributive. It's used as an example to deal with things. It's easy to say but deep in meaning. Although the utterance has been exhausted, but the meaning has not been exhausted, so that the reader can look at the outside and know the inside, touch the hair and identify the bone, see one thing in the sentence, but three corners outside the word. In Tang Dynasty, Liu Zhiji's Shi Tong narrative and Yang Jiong's epitaph of Cong nephew Liang Kai: "Ruo Fu's divination is negative, Rui Que's letter is written, the article of King Anli's grave is written, and the book of emperor Mu '

Chinese PinYin : wàng biǎo zhī lǐ