Forefathers slip, posterity slip

Forefathers slip, posterity slip

The pronunciation of Qi á NR é NSH ī Ji ǎ o, H ò ur é Nb ǎ Hu á is a Chinese idiom. It means to learn from others' failure and be careful so as not to fail again.

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It means to learn from others' failure and be careful so as not to fail again.

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Ye Sheng's Diary of Shuidong in the Ming Dynasty, Volume 7: "the temple of benevolence is suffering from foot disease, but it's still in the middle of the official's wings. Gu Zhao, a Han Dynasty man, said, "if the predecessors slip, the descendants slip."