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 「事不師古」, with details below.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「事不師古」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Describes doing things without learning from the experience of others.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shì bù shī gǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
si6 bat1 si1 gu2
Chinese idioms come in large numbers, with diverse meanings and usages, offering endless learning opportunities. We hope these resources make it easier for you to study Chinese.

