adapt ancient forms for the ancient serve the present

adapt ancient forms for the ancient serve the present

Make the past serve the present, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is g ǔ w é ij ī NY ò ng, meaning to absorb the advantages of the ancient, discard the disadvantages, in order to make the modern more advanced. From selected letters to Lu Dingyi.

The origin of Idioms

Mao Zedong's selected letters to Lu Dingyi: "the past is for the present, the foreign is for China."

Idiom usage

It refers to inheriting cultural heritage. Mao Dun, "learning from Lu Xun", he also urged that the essence of China's 5000 years of feudal culture should be inherited and developed, and that the past is the present. The study of classical literature should adhere to the principle of making the past serve the present.