Abandon one's way

Abandon one's way

Qi Dao Ren Shu is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Q ì D à or è NSH ù, which means that the ruler does not follow the king's way and exercises hegemony. From: biographies of Shangjun in historical records.

Idiom explanation

[interpretation] it means that the ruler does not follow the king's way but exercises hegemony.

Idioms and allusions

[source] biographies of Shangjun in historical records: "Yang said:" I said that you have compared three generations with the way of the emperor, and you said: "I can't stay for a long time..." So I speak of you with the skill of strengthening the country, and you speak with a big ear. " Later, because of "abandoning the way and appointing the skill", it was said that the ruler did not do the king's way and was in power. [example] in Lu Ji's five class treatise of the Jin Dynasty, it is said that "when he comes down to the end of the Qin Dynasty, he abandons the way and pursues the skill, punishes the loss of the Zhou Dynasty, and is proud of his gains."