We aim to support your Chinese studies with free resources. In this series, we explore idioms and proverbs, full of meaning. Today’s feature is 「人心不古」, explained below.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「人心不古」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
Ancient: refers to the social customs in ancient times. In the old days, it referred to people who were treacherous and mean, and not as honest as the ancients.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
rén xīn bù gǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yan4 sam1 bat1 gu2
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