Measuring merits and punishing crimes
It is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is j ì g ō ngli à ngzu ì, which means to measure the merits and demerits comprehensively. From "Chunqiu Fanlu · kaogongming".
The idiom comes from Dong Zhongshu's "Chunqiu Fanlu · kaogongming": "the method of examination should be in accordance with his title, rank, accumulate his days, judge his merits by his crimes, divide the more by the less, and determine the truth by his name."
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