in retracing the past , the future can be known

in retracing the past , the future can be known

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ǔ w ǎ ngzh ī L á I, which means to know the past and the future. It comes from Shuogua, the book of changes.

The origin of Idioms

Shuogua in the book of changes: "the number of the past is in order, and the knowledge of the future is contrary."

Idiom usage

It means knowing the past can infer the future

Examples

In hongwuzhong, the imperial court visited to know the calendar, and those who knew the past and knew the future would be granted Marquis, and they would eat five hundred stones. Lu Rong's miscellaneous notes of Shuyuan in Ming Dynasty Volume I