Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「棄故攬新」, with details below.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「棄故攬新」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Discard the old and absorb the new.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qì gù lǎn xīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hei3 gu2/gu3 laam5/laam6 san1
There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.
