Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「以古製今」. Explanation below.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「以古製今」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Conduct the affairs of today according to the established practices of the past.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐ gǔ zhì jīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi5 gu2 jai3 gam1
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