remove the evil and follow the good
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is g ǎ I è C ó ngsh à n, which means to stop committing crimes and return to being a good person. It comes from "telling fishermen in Anyi and other counties.".
The origin of Idioms
Wang Shouren of Ming Dynasty told fishermen in Anyi and other counties that "it is the initiative of those who want to change the bad and follow the good."
Analysis of Idioms
Antonym: stubborn resistance, stubbornness and unrepentant death
Idiom usage
I'm willing to change from the bad to the good, and I don't have the same experience as you. The eighth chapter of he Dian by Zhang Nanzhuang in Qing Dynasty
remove the evil and follow the good
Food for the West and sleep for the East - xī shí dōng mián
descriptive of the life of a carefree hermit - gū yún yě hè