To raise the spirits and clear the turbid
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ī y á ngq ī ngzhu ó, which means to wash away the sewage and let the water come up. It means to remove the bad and carry forward the good. It's from the emperor's rule of the dead.
Idiom usage
As a predicate, an object, an attribute; a metaphor to remove the bad
Analysis of Idioms
Synonym: stirring up the turbid and promoting the clear
The origin of Idioms
"Water has four virtues It is also righteous to raise the level of purity and stir up the turbid and remove the filth. " In the Wentang tablet written by Geng Xin in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, "benevolence is to clean up the atmosphere, while righteousness is to stir up the atmosphere."
Idiom explanation
Wash away the sewage and let clean water come up. It is a metaphor for eliminating the bad and developing the good. It is the same as "removing the turbid and promoting the clean".
To raise the spirits and clear the turbid
rescued from desperate situation - kū shù féng chūn
very calm and without worldly passions -- said of a monk - lǎo sēng rù dìng