In Story of Yanxi Palace, the queen once said something like this in her conversation with Wei Yingluo: What others see as good is not true goodness, which expresses her understanding of goodness. So what exactly is this sentence? What does it mean?

This is a famous saying in "Zhu Xi's Family Instructions". It means that you can’t wait for others to know that you have done good deeds, which is not true kindness. Original sentence: Good things that you want others to see are not really good; evil things that are feared by others are great evils. These two sentences are often used to warn people not to show off their good deeds and not to cover up their evil deeds, but to correct them quickly, which has certain educational significance.

"Zhu Xi's Family Instructions" is also known as "Zhu Xi's Maxims on Family Governance" and "Zhu Bolu's Maxims on Family Governance". It is an enlightenment textbook focusing on family ethics and was written by Zhu Bolu in the early Qing Dynasty. The whole book has only 525 words, and it is an incisive explanation of how to cultivate oneself and manage a family. It is a famous work on tutoring.