What do you mean turn a blind eye?

A leaf is blind, which is an idiom in China, pronounced as YYYYZHANG mü, which means that a leaf in front of you will make people unable to see the vast outside world. Metaphor is confused by local or temporary phenomena. The story tells us that we should see the whole picture of things and not blindly believe and worship them. We must go through scientific investigation and verification, and treat them modestly and cautiously.

Generally, sentences that can describe things with blind eyes are confusing, misleading, deceptive or limited. The allusion comes from Laughing Forest. This idiom comes from Tianze Guanzi: "You can't see Mount Tai for one leaf."

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Idiom story

There was a man in the state of Chu. His family was very poor and penniless. He read Huainanzi, and saw a record in the book that mantis used leaves to cover his body when catching cicadas, so that other small insects could not see it, and he could use it to hide his body (if anyone could get the leaves).

He was very happy, so he ran to a tree and looked up, hoping to find the leaf that mantis used to cover himself when catching cicadas. I found it by accident, so I reached out and took it off. Unexpectedly, the leaves accidentally fell to the ground. There are fallen leaves under the tree, which are beyond recognition. So he simply swept up all the fallen leaves and picked up a few buckets to go home.

After taking it home, he took turns covering his eyes with leaves one by one and asked his wife, "Can you still see me?" At first, my wife kept saying, "I can see." Later, after a whole day's tossing, his wife was so tired that she lied to him and said, "I can't see!" " "Hearing this, the man secretly rejoiced, hurriedly held the picked leaves in his arms and ran into the street.

In the downtown area, he held up leaves and threw other people's things at his face, and no one looked. The government caught him red-handed and escorted him to the county government. When the county magistrate questioned him, he honestly described the whole story. The magistrate laughed without punishment and let him go.

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