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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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