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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「酌古準今」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Select events from ancient times to compare with today’s situation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhuó gǔ zhǔn jīn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jeuk3 gu2 jeun2 gam1

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