The original sentence is: if you are kind, don't reward it. No intention to do evil, although evil is not punished.
It means: do good things deliberately and purposefully, even if you do good things, don't advocate and reward them. It is not a person's intention to do bad things unintentionally, and even if they do bad things, they should not be punished.
Excerpt from the original:
Russian topic paper flies down, depending on it, the eight-character cloud: "One person and two people, intentionally or unintentionally." Second, the official document is completed and presented to the temple. There is a cloud in the official document: "Good is rewarded, although good is not rewarded; Unintentional evil, although evil is not punished. " The gods praised it.
Translation:
After a while, I sent out the test questions. At first glance, there are eight words on it: "One person, two people, intentionally or unintentionally." After a while, their article was finished and submitted to the temple. There is such a sentence in the official document of the Song Dynasty: "If you are kind, don't reward it; Unintentional evil, although evil is not punished. " After reading it, the man of God was widely praised and praised.
Creation background
In the early Qing Dynasty, novels with the theme of talented people, beautiful women and daily life were unprecedentedly popular, and the aesthetic taste of novelists shifted from historical stories and the world of ghosts and gods to the real society.
Born in the troubled times of Ming and Qing Dynasties, Pu Songling has been keen on describing strange stories such as immortals and ghosts since childhood. He integrated the dark social reality and personal frustrations into his works, collected folk stories, and created unofficial history's lost essays, thus integrating himself into his own personality. In the eighteenth year of Kangxi (1679), he created and processed.