be lenient towards villains and let them grow traitors(gū xī yǎng jiān)

be lenient towards villains and let them grow traitors

Appeasement is a Chinese word, Pinyin is g ū x ī y ǎ ngji ā n, which means no principle of tolerance, will only encourage bad people to do evil. It's from the book of rites on the Tangong.

Idiom explanation

Appeasement: tolerance without principle for the sake of peace; nourishment: encouragement; treachery: bad people and bad things. Unprincipled tolerance will only encourage bad people to do evil.

The origin of Idioms

In the book of rites, on the sandalwood bow: "the lover of a small man is tolerant."

Idiom story

Once upon a time, a mouse man in Yongzhou was very fond of mice. He didn't allow his family and his subordinates to catch mice and let them do mischievous things at home. He often put food into the mice. The nearby mice ran to his house in droves, which caused a lot of rats. The neighbors hated his behavior of tolerating and nurturing traitors

Analysis of Idioms

[structure] partial formality [Xiehouyu] Dongguo saves the wolf

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate, object and attribute

Chinese PinYin : gū xī yǎng jiān