Pursue the near and abandon the far

Pursue the near and abandon the far

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is zh ú J ì NQ ì Yu ǎ n, which means to pursue the near and abandon the far. It comes from Shi Tong, the mistakes of five elements in Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Liu Zhiji's Shitong Hanshu five elements annals error in Tang Dynasty: "the quotations in the annals of today's class are from the Youli of Zhou Dynasty to the dingai of Lu Dynasty. They don't say Guoyu, but they call Shiji. Don't they forget the origin and favor the end and abandon the near and the far?"

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: avoid the heavy and pursue the light

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate, attribute, or object; used in writing