What do you mean, don't avoid relatives or enemies? Where is the source of not avoiding relatives and enemies?

"Don't avoid relatives" means that people who recommend talents don't avoid relatives. "Don't avoid suspicion" means: don't avoid words when recommending your relatives. These two words are used by the monarch of the state of Jin to describe the courtiers Qi Xi.

"Recommend sages without avoiding relatives" evolved from "Recommend sages without avoiding relatives and enemies" and originated from "going private" in Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals.

Confucius highly praised Uncle Wen Zi's behavior of recommending virtuous people without avoiding relatives, and successfully recommended family ministers, and took this opportunity to talk about the truth of "recommending virtuous people without avoiding relatives, and raising relatives without avoiding doubts".

The allusion comes from the third year of Duke Xiang of Lu, and Confucius was born in 19, which shows that Confucius knows this allusion. There are two other sayings in this allusion: "Don't avoid enmity when promoting the virtuous, don't avoid relatives when promoting the virtuous" and "Don't avoid enmity when promoting externally, and don't avoid relatives when promoting internally", all of which have the same meaning: appoint people on their merits.