1.lit. viewing the sky with a basin on one's head; it is hard to get a clear view of the sky while carrying a platter on one's head2.fig. it is hard to get on in one's career while encumbered by family obligations3.one can't perform a major task while bothered by other duties
1.lit. the next mountain looks taller (idiom); fig. not satisfied with one's current position2.the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
choronym (a family's region of origin, used as an indicator of superior social status in a surname-choronym combination) (For example, the Tang writer Han Yu 韩愈[hán yù] is also known as 韩昌黎[hán chāng lí], where 韩[hán] is his surname and 昌黎[chāng lí] is his clan's ancestral prefecture 郡[jùn].)