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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「以古方今」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Compare the human affairs of ancient times with those of today.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǐ gǔ fāng jīn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi5 gu2 fong1 gam1

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