Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「榮古虐今」, explained here.
Learn about the idiom 「榮古虐今」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Praise the ancient times and criticize the present.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
róng gǔ nuè jīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
wing4 gu2 yeuk6 gam1
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