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learn from the past

Time: 2022-01-31 08:19:11 Author: ChinaWiki.net

learn from the past

Taking the past as a mirror, the Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ǐ g ǔ w é ij ì ng, which means to draw lessons from the success or failure in history. The same as "learning from the past". Source: biography of Wei Zheng in the old book of Tang Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

According to Wei zhengzhuan in the old book of the Tang Dynasty, "if a man uses copper as a mirror, he can straighten his clothes; if he uses ancient times as a mirror, he can know the ups and downs; if he uses people as a mirror, he can know the gains and losses."

Idiom usage

To act as a predicate, object, or attribute

learn from the past


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