to do good and dissuade him from doing evil
Chinese idiom, pronounced Qu à NSH à NJI è è in pinyin, means to punish bad people and encourage good people. From the collection of Arts and culture.
The origin of Idioms
Zuo Zhuan, forty years of Chenggong: "the name of the spring and Autumn Annals is slight but obvious, ambition but obscure, euphemism but chapter, exhausting but not polluting, punishing evil but persuading good. It is not a saint who can cultivate it."
Idiom usage
To punish the bad and encourage the good. "There are good deeds in life, and good posthumous titles in death, so it is also necessary to encourage good and abstain from evil."
Chinese PinYin : quàn shàn jiè è
to do good and dissuade him from doing evil
strong as a bear in the hips and with a back supple as a tiger 's. hǔ bèi xióng yāo
be as good a general as a minister. chū jiàng rù xiàng
to hold back from taking action against an evildoer for fear of involving good people. tóu shǔ jì qì