This week’s photo challenge is Look Up.
It was an unique experience looking up the light well from down under in the temple in Angkor Wat.
The light well is sort of confined and lined with rugged stones on all four sides, like a shaft extending to the sky.
I felt I was down under in a well, looking up the sky.
Then I thought of the Chinese idiom:
If you are a frog sitting at the bottom of the well, you probably say the sky is small. Actually, the sky is not small, only because your width of vision is limited.
If you are a Summer insect, then probably we can’t talk to you of snow. Not that there is no snow, but because you perish before the snow appears.
The above is my translation into English while writing this; so this may not be the best of translation.
🙂 What a perspective!
Have a very HAPPY week! 🙂
Same to you, Happyface!
Nice post
Thank you!
Beautiful photo’s and I love the Chinese saying!
Thank you, perdebytjie!
Lovely image and words and I was wondering if you can tell me the second saying in Chinese (admit my ignorance!)
夏蟲不可語與冰,非無冰也,而其未見冰也
Thank you!
This is strictly from my memory, maybe incorrect in part. Most people quote the frog in the well but not the second part.