The meaning of "strong and soft" is that the strong and the soft modulate each other, meaning that the two means, the strong and the soft, modulate and cooperate with each other.
I. Citation Explanation
1. Han - Wang Chuan "for Liu Jingzhou and Yuan Shangshu": when the only righteousness is the business, the only country is Kang. What, gold, wood, water and fire to rigid and flexible, and then grams to get its and, can be for the people.
2. Ming Luo Guanzhong, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", 71: all generals, when the rigid and flexible, not in vain to rely on their courage.
Second, the near-synonyms
1, grace and prestige: grace and prestige means reward and punishment together, refers to the ruler at the same time to use high-pressure and soft means. From "Three Kingdoms Zhi-Wu Shu-Zhou Bream Biography".
2. Kuan and ferocity: Kuan and ferocity means that political measures should be complementary to each other in terms of leniency and strictness. It is from "Zuo Zhuan - Zhaogong 20 Years".
3, leniency and severity:? The strict is strict, when wide is wide; strict in the wide, wide in the strict; wide and strict degrees, wide and strict trial time.
Rigid and Flexible Phrases:
1, as a leader, the staff rigid and flexible, is their consistent measures.
2, As long as you are just as flexible as you are, you can surely handle this matter.
3, for others you are always just soft, give me the feeling that you are too smooth.
4, to do things like this pole, can bend straight, bend is also for straight, just and soft for the road.
5, flowering tree is really quite beautiful. Like chivalry, like the beauty of the sword dance, just and soft, is admirable tenderness.