Take the big as the evil and the small as the evil(yǐ dà wù xì)

Take the big as the evil and the small as the evil

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ǐ D à w ù x ì, which means to use big charges to blame people for small mistakes. It comes from Wang Chong's Lun Heng Wen Kong in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

[allusion] in Wang Chong's Lun Heng Wen Kong: "kill me to sleep in the daytime. Confucius said, "you can't carve rotten wood, you can't build a wall of dung. If you give it, how can you punish it?" It's the day of evil. Ask: the evil of day and night is also small evil; rotten wood and dirt, destroy things that can not be restored, is also big evil. Is it possible to convince people by taking responsibility for minor mistakes and taking great evils? If you are not good at killing me, you are like rotten wood and dirt. You should not enter Confucius' gate Confucius wrote the spring and Autumn Annals. He did not belittle the small to the big. He did not punish the big to the evil. His writing and language contradicted each other. How about persuading people? " In Wang Chong's Lun Heng Wen Kong of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is recorded that Confucius' student Zai Yu once slept in the daytime. Confucius thought it was a waste of time, so he said in disgust: "Zai Yu is just like a decadent wooden head that can't be carved into an object, and a low wall made of dung that can't be painted prettily It's hopeless. As for Zaiyu, what can I say to blame him? "So Wang Chong commented: sleeping in broad daylight is also a mistake, but it's a small mistake. Rotten wood and dung are all things of poor quality. It is a great crime to compare people to rotten wood and dung. How can we convince people by accusing others of minor mistakes and adding great charges to them? When Confucius revised the spring and Autumn Annals, he advocated that one's integrity should not be belittled because of minor mistakes. When he criticized Zaiyu, he used great charges to blame others for minor mistakes. When he wrote the book, his ideas contradicted and contradicted his usual words How can it be convincing?

Analysis of Idioms

[pinyin code]: ydwx [degree of common use]: General

Chinese PinYin : yǐ dà wù xì