Pick up old stories
To follow the platitudes.
Idioms and allusions
[source] yuan · Liu Xun's "general discussion on seclusion · poem 3": "it's wonderful to see it. It's a family of its own. It's not willing to pick up the old stories."
Discrimination of words
Be conservative
Usage: used as predicate, attribute and object
Pick up old stories
keep on repeating at great length - lián biān lěi dú
To be a monk for one day and strike a clock for one day - zuò yī rì hé shàng zhuàng yī tiān zhōng
Consider the past and the present - zhuó gǔ zhēn jīn