advise the vicious

advise the vicious

In Chinese, the Pinyin is Qu à NSH à NCH é ng è, which means to punish bad people and reward good people. From Zuo Zhuan, the fourteenth year of Chenggong.

The origin of Idioms

In the fourteenth year of Chenggong in Zuozhuan: "the name of spring and Autumn Annals is slight but obvious, ambition but obscure, euphemism but chapter, exhausting but not polluting, punishing evil but persuading good, which can not be cultivated by sages."

Analysis of Idioms

To persuade good to abstain from evil

Idiom usage

It means to punish the bad and encourage the good. It means to encourage the good and punish the bad. It means that every word is strange or desirable. Zhao Bi's preface to xiaomeiji in Ming Dynasty