evoke memories of the past while living in the present

evoke memories of the past while living in the present

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f ǔ J ī NT ò NGX ī, which means recalling the past because of the things in front of us. The same as "remembrance of the past". It comes from the story of the Golden Lotus.

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Because of the things in front of me, I think about the past. The same as "remembrance of the past".

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Chen Ruyuan of the Ming Dynasty wrote in the story of the Golden Lotus: feeling the benefits and forgetting the grudges, remedying the past and the present