execute one as a warning to others

execute one as a warning to others

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is sh ā y ī J ǐ NGB ǎ I, which means to kill a person in order to warn many people. It comes from the biography of Yin Weng in Hanshu.

The origin of Idioms

According to the biography of Yin Weng Guizhuan in the book of Han Dynasty, "he has something to take. He is a police officer and a hundred officials and people are all obedient. He is afraid to reform."

Idiom usage

Serial verb; as predicate and object; with commendatory meaning

Examples

If you encounter resistance, you will. (Yao xueyin, Li Zicheng, Vol.1, Chapter 14)

Analysis of Idioms

words whose meaning is similar

Learn from the past and learn from the future

antonym

Let bygones be bygones and be lenient

Idiom story

In 949 ad, Li ShouZhen, the rebel general of the later Han Dynasty, led his army to attack Hexi (now Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province). Before the operation, he asked people to disguise themselves as wine vendors, lured the people of Guo Wei's department in Hexi to drink freely with small profits, and then took advantage of their drunkenness to attack the military camp in Hexi. When Guo Wei learned about it, he immediately ordered that He Xi should not drink without permission except for rewards and banquets. Once, Li Shen, Guo Wei's closest general, violated the rules and drank wine. He sent someone to find Li Shen and scold him angrily. After that, he immediately decapitated him. Hexi officers and soldiers no longer dare to drink casually.