Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「泥古非今」 here, with meaning and examples.
This feature highlights the idiom 「泥古非今」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Cling to the ancient and deny the present. Describes the tendency to respect old conventions and disparage new things.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
ní gǔ fēi jīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
nai4 gu2 fei1 gam1
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