Old fashioned
It is an old-fashioned Chinese idiom, and its pinyin is g à di à ob à t á n. Ancient tune: an ancient tune.
It's a metaphor for the unpopularity of things that are out of date. From listening to the piano.
Analysis of Idioms
Antonym: a cliche
Idiom usage
As an object; out of date
The origin of Idioms
In Tang Dynasty, Liu Changqing's poem listening to the piano: "on the seven strings of the cold, the wind is cold and the pines are still blowing. Although the old tune is self love, today many people don't play it. "
Idiom story
In the Tang Dynasty, the poet Liu Changqing wrote the poem "listening to the piano": on the seven strings of the cold, listening to the pines, the wind is cold. Although the ancient tune is self loving, most people today don't play it Feeling the change of world affairs and people's mind, people's mind is not old. He used it to satirize that modern people are not as noble as the ancients, and he has the feeling that a bosom friend is hard to find
Old fashioned
look at one 's image in the mirror and pity oneself - gù yǐng zì lián
Discard the treasure and pick up the gravel - qì qióng shí lì
high official positions and riches - gōng míng lì lù