publicize the good deeds of good people in the hope that others will emulate them

publicize the good deeds of good people in the hope that others will emulate them

Yangqingjizhuo, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y á ngq ī NGJ ī Zhu ó, which means to wash away sewage and let clean water come up. It refers to criticizing and eliminating bad people and bad things, commending and promoting good people and good things. It's from the emperor's rule of the dead.

The origin of Idioms

"The emperor's rule of the corpse" says, "it is also righteous to raise the level of purity and stir up the turbid and remove the filth."

Idiom usage

The combination is used as predicate, with commendatory meaning. Example: in the book of Jin, Emperor Wudi's Chronicle, it is said that "to raise the level of purity and stir up the turbid, and to raise the level of beauty and play in defiance of the law, so I will go down to the general outline and instruct Liang Er Qian Shi." In the biography of Ma Zhou in the old book of the Tang Dynasty, it is said that "the way for officials to learn and transform lies in seeking good people and judging officials; the foundation for politics lies in promoting the spirit of purity and arousing the turbid." According to the epitaph of Liu junjixia written by Zeng Guofan in Qing Dynasty, "Ji Xia is strict and obedient, but has different charm. Mencius would like to encourage scholars to be clear and exalted, but Ji Xia would not like to be in Tibet. "

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: to promote the good, to denounce the evil, to promote the clear and to suppress the turbid