treat persons differently
Picking Buddha and burning incense, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin J is I ǎ NF ó sh ā oxi ā ng, which refers to behaving or treating others with kindness. It comes from 159 of Hanshan's poem in Tang Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
Tang Hanshan's poem 159: choose Buddha to burn incense, choose monk to support.
Idiom usage
It is used as predicate and attributive, and it is used as a metaphor for behaving or treating others with kindness. Qingniang is a good example. ——Wu Bing of Ming Dynasty
treat persons differently
be washed by rain and blown by wind - yǔ mù fēng cān
write the truth without fear or favor - bǐng bǐ zhí shū