punish the wicked in order to exhort others to goodness(chéng è quàn shàn)

punish the wicked in order to exhort others to goodness

Punishing the evil and persuading the good, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch é ng è Qu à NSH à n, which means punishing the evil and persuading him to be good. It comes from Zuo Zhuan, the fourteenth year of Chenggong.

Analysis of Idioms

Punish: punish; exhort: encourage. Punish the bad and reward the good. synonym: concealing evil and promoting good

The origin of Idioms

Chunqiu · Lu · Zuo Qiuming's Zuo Zhuan · the fourteenth year of Chenggong: "the name of Chunqiu is slight but obvious, and its ambition is obscure Punish evil and encourage good. Who is not a saint

Idiom usage

The so-called literary humanitarianism, of course, is not vulgar universal, nor is it punishing the evil and persuading the good. Sun Li's Xiulu collection: the road of literature and life

Chinese PinYin : chéng è quàn shàn