appoint upright and remove the crooked ones -- to replace the bad ones by good ones

appoint upright and remove the crooked ones -- to replace the bad ones by good ones

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is j ǔ zh í Cu ò w ǎ ng, which means to select the wise and dethrone the evil. It's from the Analects of Confucius · Weizheng.

Idiom explanation

Examples: selection and appointment; wrong: bending, a metaphor for the evil; wrong: abandoning, dethroning; straight: straight, a metaphor for the upright.

The origin of Idioms

In the Analects of Confucius, it is said that "the people will be satisfied if they are wronged; the people will not be satisfied if they are wronged."

Idiom usage

In this way, we can choose the wise and dethrone the evil. Examples read Kong Sheng's Micro words, think straight and take measures in vain; view Wang Yu's confirmation, want to stimulate the turbid to promote the Qing Dynasty. The 73rd chapter of the complete biography of Shuoyue by Qian Cai in Qing Dynasty