Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「道大莫容」, explained here.
Here’s the idiom 「道大莫容」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Originally it meant that Confucius’s teachings were so profound and broad that the world could not accommodate him. Later it was used to mean that correct principles are not accepted by the world.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dào dà mò róng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dou6 daai6 mok6 yung4
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