Make a new out of the old
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is R ǎ NJI ù Zu ò x ī n, which means to change the old to make the new. It comes from the book of answer to Huang.
The origin of Idioms
Li Zhu's answer to Huang's works in Song Dynasty: "today's scholars But I have read more than ten ancient essays, demolished the south to make up the north, dyed the old and made a new one. I'm a famous scholar. How can I distinguish between them? "
Analysis of Idioms
Near synonym: fraud
Idiom usage
As a predicate or attributive; refers to fraud
Make a new out of the old
we 'll march straight to huanglong and there drink together to our hearts ' content - tòng yǐn huáng lóng
reference to a fight among brothers - zhǔ dòu rán qí
treat people differently according to preferment - kàn rén xíng shì