What do you mean the stars are not as bright as the lonely moon?

Stars are not as bright as the lonely moon: although many stars are bright, they are not as bright as the moon.

"The stars are not as bright as the moon", a proverb means that many stars are not as bright as a bright moon, which means that many ordinary people are not worthy of the role of an outstanding person.

Excerpted from Dunhuang Bianwen Anthology: A New Edition of Confucius for Children.

The Collection of Dunhuang Changes is a collection of Dunhuang Changes in Tang Dynasty, edited by,, Xiang Da,, Gong, and published by People's Literature Publishing House 1957. According to 187 Dunhuang manuscripts collected at home and abroad, this book has compiled and selected 78 works. In the introduction, the editor said that they "recorded a book according to the photo or the original volume, and then one person was responsible for proofreading, and the other five people took turns proofreading, combining their proofreading opinions into proofreading notes and attaching them to the back of each article". Therefore, the proofreading text can basically keep the original appearance of the written version.