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
kindness and hatred are clearly distinguished - ēn yuàn fēn míng
Looking at the cottage three times - máo lú sān gù
excellent in both content and language - qíng wén bìng mào