to do good and dissuade him from doing evil

to do good and dissuade him from doing evil

Chinese idiom, pronounced Qu à NSH à NJI è è in pinyin, means to punish bad people and encourage good people. From the collection of Arts and culture.

The origin of Idioms

Zuo Zhuan, forty years of Chenggong: "the name of the spring and Autumn Annals is slight but obvious, ambition but obscure, euphemism but chapter, exhausting but not polluting, punishing evil but persuading good. It is not a saint who can cultivate it."

Idiom usage

To punish the bad and encourage the good. "There are good deeds in life, and good posthumous titles in death, so it is also necessary to encourage good and abstain from evil."