Basic Info Chinese Idiom: 智子疑邻Pinyin: zhì zǐ yí línLiteral Meaning: Think one’s own son is clever yet suspect the innocent neighbor.Figurative Meaning: Judge things with personal bias instead of objective facts; favor family while unfairly suspecting outsiders facing identical clues.
A girl in one of the workshops by the river was too poor to buy oil for the lamp; so the other girls decided to drive her away.