This sentence means that there are many thousand-mile horses, but there are very few people who recognize them. The deeper meaning is that there are many talented people and good ministers who govern the country, but there are very few people who have the vision to appreciate them.

This sentence comes from the article "Horse Theory" by Han Yu, one of the eight great masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties. Although this article talks about the way to know horses, it is actually the principle of the monarch's appointment of ministers. The situation is used to compare the situation of talented people.

"Horse Theory": There is Bole in the world, and then there is a thousand-mile horse. A thousand-mile horse often exists, but a bole does not always exist. Therefore, even though there is a thousand-mile horse, it will be carelessly grown and be dead in a stall, never being called as a thousand-mile horse.

A horse that travels a thousand miles can eat as much grain as a stone. Those who eat horses don’t know that they can travel thousands of miles and eat. Although this horse is capable of running a thousand-mile, it is not full of food, lacks strength, and its talent and beauty are not visible externally. Moreover, if you want to be like an ordinary horse, you cannot expect it to be able to run a thousand-mile.

If the horse is not driven according to the right way, if the horse cannot feed it to its full potential, if the horse is singing but cannot understand its meaning, it will approach it with the policy in hand and say: "There is no horse in the world."

"Woohoo! Is there really no horse? I really don't know horses!

Reference materials

Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties. "Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasty Prose Collection". Beijing: Beijing Press , 2008-02