appoint people on their merit

appoint people on their merit

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ì nxi á NR è NN é ng, which means to recommend a sage and appoint a capable person. It comes from the book of rites.

The origin of Idioms

In the book of rites, the great biography says, "three is to promote the virtuous, four is to enable."

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: use the talents, promote the talents, promote the talents

Idiom usage

To select talents, to manage the army, to train the military, to promote the virtuous and to appoint the capable, to regard the public as the virtuous and the envoys as the doctors. The 20th chapter of Eastern Zhou Dynasty annals by Feng Menglong in Ming Dynasty