denounce the guilty and to chastise

denounce the guilty and to chastise

Denounce a crime, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ē ngzu ì zh ì t ǎ o, which means to declare a crime and add a crusade. It comes from Guoyu Jinyu 5 written by Lu zuoqiuming in Chunqiu period.

The origin of Idioms

"Guoyu · Jinyu 5" says, "it's a crime to beat the bells and drums."

Idiom usage

In the romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong, Ming Dynasty, Chapter 22: to call on the counties, to denounce the crimes, and then to be justified. "At the right time, the change of Korea's abolishment came to an end, and the Duke (yuan Keli) spared himself in appealing for punishment." In Lin Zexu's manuscript of Huiyu Tongzhi again instructing Yilv to hand over the land and hand over the murderer in the Qing Dynasty, the minister and the Department of the Ministry of justice denounced the crime, and the justice was strict, so the judgment could not be delayed any longer