excute without teaching(bù jiào ér zhū)

excute without teaching

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ù Ji à o é RZH ū, which means not educating people in advance and punishing them if they make mistakes. It comes from Xunzi, the rich country.

Idiom explanation

Teach: educate; punish: punish, kill. If you don't give warning, you will be executed; if you don't educate people in advance, you will be punished if you make a mistake. The purpose of "kill without teaching" is to kill without teaching. Most of them use the trick of playing hard to get.

The origin of Idioms

Therefore, if we do not teach and punish, the punishment will be numerous and evil; if we do not teach and punish, the traitors will not be punished. Xunzi the rich country

Idiom story

Zhang, a student of Confucius, asked Confucius how to govern a country well. Confucius replied that he only needed to respect "Five Virtues" and get rid of "four kinds of bad government". Among them, the first of the "four evils" is that people are not educated at ordinary times, and then they blame others for killing people. This is abuse. Second, violence, thieves and petty.

Idiom usage

The adults limit them to three months to quit smoking. They can't bear to give up smoking. Chapter 20 of Li Baojia's officialdom in the Qing Dynasty (2) punishment without instruction can not educate the people who make mistakes to correct them, but will hurt them, and can not achieve the purpose of "learning from the past, curing the disease and saving the people".

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms: kill without teaching, lead astray

Chinese PinYin : bù jiào ér zhū