登泰山而小天下

Mandarin

simpl. and trad.
登泰山而小天下

Etymology

• c. 385 BCE - 289 BCE: anon, Mencius: Devoting one's energies (part one) (孟子/盡心上)

  孟子曰：孔子登東山而小魯，登泰山而小天下。 (trad.)

   

  孟子曰：孔子登东山而小鲁，登泰山而小天下。 (simp.)

  Mencius said, "Having climbed the East Peak (of Mount Tai), Lu seemed small to Confucius. Having climbed to the top of Mount Tai, the whole world below seemed small. (Wiktionary translation)

Idiom

登泰山而小天下 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin dēng Tài Shān ér xiǎo tiānxià)

1. able to see far and wide

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