give up the evil and follow the good(shèng cán qù shā)

give up the evil and follow the good

Victory over brutality, the Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh è NGC á NQ ù sh ā, which means that the death penalty can be abolished if a cruel person is reformed so that he will no longer do evil; it also refers to moralizing the people and governing them peacefully. From the Analects of Confucius · Zilu.

The origin of Idioms

In the Analects of Confucius · Zilu written by Lu kongqiu in the spring and Autumn Period: "a good man has been a nation for a hundred years, and he can win and kill."

Idiom usage

As an object or attribute, it refers to moralizing the people. In the book of Han, Li Guangchuan, written by Ban Gu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is said that "my husband should repay his anger and eliminate the evil, and donate his life to kill the general." victory over cruelty, victory over cruelty, victory over cruelty, victory over cruelty, victory over cruelty, victory over cruelty, victory over cruelty, victory over cruelty, victory over cruelty, victory over cruelty, victory over cruelty, victory over cruelty. The stele of Wei Zhe, the right general of Tang Dynasty, by Yang Jiong of Tang Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : shèng cán qù shā