reach for what is beyond one 's grasp
Chinese idioms, pronounced h à og à ow à Yu à n, mean to pursue too high and too far away from reality. It comes from the biography of Cheng Hao.
Notes on Idioms
Good: like; high: too high; focus: pursuit; far: too far.
The origin of Idioms
According to Cheng Hao's biography, the first biography of Daoism in the history of the Song Dynasty, "the sick scholars are disgusted with the inferiority of the near, but aim for the high and far, and there is no success in death."
Chinese PinYin : hǎo gāo wù yuǎn
Go far
Never die till you reach the Yellow River. bù dào huáng hé xīn bù sǐ
as difficult as to climb up to the sky. nán rú dēng tiān
there is poetry in a painting. huà zhōng yǒu shī
Hold the comet to put out the fire. yōng huǐ jiù huǒ