impose upon those who are kind and fear those who are severe(qī shàn pà è)

impose upon those who are kind and fear those who are severe

Bullying the good and fearing the evil, a Chinese idiom, pronounced Q à sh à NP à è, means bullying the good and fearing the evil. From Dongpo Zhilin.

Analysis of Idioms

Bullying the weak and fearing the strong

Idiom usage

It refers to the character of a person

Examples

Tian she Weng lives in the mountain and Ge Luo. He is vicious because of his old age. I am insulted by him every time. He bullies the good and fears the evil. Yu Huan Ji Wei Gao's farewell to his wife by Yang rousheng in Ming Dynasty

The origin of Idioms

Su Shi's Dongpo Zhilin of Song Dynasty, Volume 6: "the Shui people are crazy about the dark, and people kill them lightly, or the clouds can't taste the injustice, which is to bully the good and fear the evil."

Chinese PinYin : qī shàn pà è