appoint people on their merit

appoint people on their merit

Ren Xian Shi Neng, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is R è nxi á NSH ǐ n é ng, which means to appoint people with virtue and talent. From Xunzi Wang Zhi.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: the sage is in office, the capable is in office

Idiom usage

Wu's leader is a man of great ability and great ambition. The eighty second chapter of romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty

The origin of Idioms

"Xunzi · Wang Zhi" says, "if you want to establish an official position, you must uphold the ability of the virtuous." In Wang Chong's Lun Heng · nature of Han Dynasty, "Shun and Yu inherited the rule of an, appointed the virtuous and capable, respected themselves and ruled the world."