The forbidden net is wide

The forbidden net is wide

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ì NW ǎ ngsh ū Ku, which means that the law is too lenient. It comes from the first chapter of Ai Di Ji in the Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

XunYue of the Han Dynasty wrote in the first chapter of Ai Di Ji of the Han Dynasty: "as for the prosperity of the Han Dynasty, the forbidden net is wide, but it is not corrected."

Idiom usage

In the past, Qin was a warder, and his clothes were full of red. In the Han Dynasty, the wind was over corrected and the net was wide, so the boat was swallowed. Preface to biography of cruel officials in Sui Dynasty