A piece of Chinese literature that keeps coming up to my
mind recently is the Chu Shi Biao《出師表》of Zhugu Liang (諸葛亮).
恐托付不效，以傷先帝之明。
This little phrase is not easy to be translated. Nonetheless,
the idea is simple: It is a taboo to say a leader is shit if the previous one
was a giant – because it implies that the great person who used to hold this
post did not quite find the right successor.
On the other hand, if that great person is still around, he
will never agree his successor is horrible - for the blame and responsibility
would always go back to the one who chose such a bad leader.
嗚呼， 教主文成武德，仁義英明，澤被蒼生，算無遺策，千秋萬世，一統江湖！
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