Give up the easy and ask for the difficult
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Q ì y ì Qi ú n á n, which means to throw away the easy and seek the difficult. It comes from the biography of Fu Zhan in the book of the later Han Dynasty by Fan Ye of the Southern Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
In the biography of Fu Zhan in the book of the later Han Dynasty written by Fan Ye in the Southern Dynasty, it is said that "Your Majesty set aside the near future, abandoned the easy and asked for the difficult, doubted everywhere, frightened the people, and puzzled by the honest officials."
Idiom usage
As a predicate or object; used to choose
Give up the easy and ask for the difficult
a big fish in shallow water -- a ponderous apparatus without sufficient resources for maintenance - yú dà shuǐ xiǎo
a timely warning may avert a national crisis - yī yán xīng bāng
act according to one's capability - liàng lì ér wéi