A wide range of talents is harmful to one's health
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is C á IGU ǎ NGF á ngsh ē n, which means to rely on one's ability to be broad, sometimes to one's own detriment. From Zhou Wenzhi's fighting quail: self realization.
The origin of Idioms
Yuan and Zhou Wenzhi's "fighting quail: self realization" divertimento: "after watching some heroes stop fighting for leisure, the famous generals lose their lives As the saying goes, "a wide range of talents are harmful to one's health, but a high official position is harmful to one's health."
Idiom usage
As an object or attribute; used to admonish
A wide range of talents is harmful to one's health
discussion as to who is right and who is wrong - lùn duǎn dào cháng
to believe everything in books is worse than to have no books at all - jìn xìn shū bù rú wú shū
The arrow pierces the goose's beak - jiàn chuān yàn zuǐ
Fire and water are incompatible - shuǐ huǒ bù xiāng róng
eradicate harmful things and set up the business benefit of the people - chú huàn xīng lì