Internal repair and external disturbance
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin, is n è IXI ū wair ǎ ng, which means renovating the state affairs at home and resisting the enemy at abroad. Repair is also called "repair". It comes from "the imperial edict of the imitative power field".
Idiom usage
In the two chapters of chuigong, zouza and the preface to the discussion of Wu Wu Dang, the author repeatedly takes it as the saying that it is natural and reasonable that internal repair and external strife are irreversible. Lin Quan's essays by Zhang Lun in Ming Dynasty
The origin of Idioms
Hu Kai of the Song Dynasty wrote in the imperial edict of imitating the power of the field: "the virtuous person who cultivates righteousness and cultivates propriety is full of the ambition of cultivating both inside and outside."
Chinese PinYin : nèi xiū wai rǎng
Internal repair and external disturbance
Wandering in the East and in the West. dōng zhī xī wú
Draw a tiger but not a dog. huà hǔ bù chéng fǎn lèi quǎn
shrink back from difficulties. wàng fēng xī xīn
lay the hand on the heart and examine oneself. mén xīn zì wèn
Eliminate evil and punish evil. chú xié chéng è