Those in position of power take arbitrary actions and thus provoke people's anger.
Cantonese
平息民愤
平息民憤
ping4 sik1 man4 fan5
to calm the anger of the people
Cantonese
政府激起民愤。
政府激起民憤。
zing3 fu2 gik1 hei2 man4 fan5.
The government provoked the anger of the people.
Cantonese
激起民愤
激起民憤
gik1 hei2 man4 fan5
to stir up anger of the people
Examples (Wiktionary)
Mandarin
平民愤
平民憤
píng mín fèn
to assuage popular indignation
Mandarin
近年来，因教师素养问题所致的学生“民愤”事件频发，而从人们广泛关注的“雷电法王”杨教授事件中不难看出，当学生出现叛逆心理后，望子成龙的家长没有关注学生的身心健康，反而一味要求学生提高成绩，这就使得学生很容易在恶性循环中感到绝望，最终导致悲剧发生。
近年來，因教師素養問題所致的學生“民憤”事件頻發，而從人們廣泛關注的“雷電法王”楊教授事件中不難看出，當學生出現叛逆心理後，望子成龍的家長沒有關注學生的身心健康，反而一味要求學生提高成績，這就使得學生很容易在惡性循環中感到絕望，最終導致悲劇發生。
jìn nián lái ， yīn jiào shī sù yǎng wèn tí suǒ zhì de xué shēng “ mín fèn ” shì jiàn pín fā ， ér cóng rén men guǎng fàn guān zhù de “ léi diàn fǎ wáng ” yáng jiào shòu shì jiàn zhōng bù nán kàn chū ， dāng xué shēng chū xiàn pàn nì xīn lǐ hòu ， wàng zǐ chéng lóng de jiā cháng méi yǒu guān zhù xué shēng de shēn xīn jiàn kāng ， fǎ né r5 yī wèi yào qiú xué shēng tí gāo chéng jì ， zhè jiù shǐ dé xué shēng hěn róng yì zài è xìng xún huán zhōng gǎn dào jué wàng ， zuì zhōng dǎo zhì bēi jù fā shēng ．
Recently, events of student "indignation" arising from bad teacher attitudes have been occurring more frequently, and from the much-discussed "Master of Thunder" Professor Yang event, it is not hard to see that when a student manifests a rebellious mentality, the parents, who hope that the student will achieve great successes, will not pay attention to their mental health. Instead, they blindly demand that the student attain better results. This will cause the student to feel despair in a vicious cycle, and in the end, a tragedy will occur.