teach a monkey to climb a tree

teach a monkey to climb a tree

Jiaoyi Shengmu is a Chinese idiom. Its pinyin is Ji ā on á OSH ē NGM ù, which means that it refers to abetting bad people to do bad things. From the book of songs Xiaoya Jiaogong.

The origin of Idioms

"The book of songs · Xiaoya · Jiaogong" says, "do not teach a tree to rise, just like painting."

Idiom usage

In Chen Tianhua's on China's propaganda, reform and creation of a democratic government in Qing Dynasty: "that is to change the face and help the private, which is the same as teaching the bad guys to rise to the wood and helping the bad guys to abuse." Liang Qichao's the future of new China: "although a few people represent the affairs of the state, they are not in control of the affairs of the state. How can we use the natural inequality as an excuse to teach the bandits how to rise a tree?"