从善如登，从恶如崩
cóng shàn rú dēng, cóng è rú bēng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 從善如登，從惡如崩
Doing good is as hard as climbing a mountain, while sliding into bad ways is as fast as a landslide. Quoted in essays and speeches to urge people, especially the young, to keep choosing the harder path.
Theo điều thiện khó như leo núi, theo điều ác dễ như núi lở: học cái tốt thì khó và lâu, sa vào cái xấu thì rất nhanh. Thường được dẫn trong bài viết, bài nói để khuyên răn, nhất là với người trẻ.
Register: literary
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 崩 = băng · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “tùng thiện như đăng, tùng ác như băng” (tung-thien-nhu-dang-tung-ac-nhu-bang). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
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Common questions
What does “从善如登，从恶如崩” mean?
Doing good is as hard as climbing a mountain, while sliding into bad ways is as fast as a landslide. Quoted in essays and speeches to urge people, especially the young, to keep choosing the harder path. Literally: follow good like climbing, follow evil like collapsing
Is “从善如登，从恶如崩” formal or informal?
从善如登，从恶如崩 is generally literary.