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坐井观天

zuò jǐng guān tiān

Lit: “sit in a well and watch the sky

have a very limited view of the world; be narrow-minded

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Origin Story

A frog spent its entire life at the bottom of a deep well. Looking up, it could only see a small circle of sky and believed that was all the sky there was. One day a sea turtle visited and described the vast ocean. The frog laughed in disbelief — nothing could be bigger than its well! 坐井观天 describes someone whose limited experience leads them to make grand but wrong conclusions.