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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「故步自封」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Gu: old; Gubu: the way of walking in the old days, extended to the old law; Feng: limit within a certain range. A metaphor for sticking to the old ways and not seeking progress.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gù bù zì fēng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gu2/gu3 bou6 ji6 fung1
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