Pursue misfortune with virtue

Pursue misfortune with virtue

Pursuing disaster with virtue is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is y ǐ D é Zhu ī huॸ, which means to show improper kindness from the top to the bottom to attract disaster. It comes from Han Feizi's employing people.

The source of the idiom is Han Feizi's Employment: "therefore, the master of the Ming Dynasty set up the people's happiness in addition to the sufferings of the officials, and the benefits of the superior and the inferior do not grow here. If you don't pay attention to private affairs, you should pay less attention to serious matters, punish more than you should pay attention to crimes, complain more than you should for a long time, bully more than you should, and pursue misfortune with virtue, then you should cut off your hand and continue to use jade. In the past, you have to change your body. "