look up to the past and look down on the present
look up to the past and look down on the present
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Z ū ng ǔ B ē ij ī n, which means to respect the ancient and despise the present. It comes from Chuang Tzu's foreign things.
The origin of Idioms
Chuang Tzu's foreign things written by Chuang Tzu in the Warring States period, Song Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty: "the husband respects the past but belittles the present, so do the scholars."
Idiom usage
As predicate, attributive and object, it refers to people's attitude towards life, which means that people in today's world respect the past and humble the present. Wang Chong's Lun Heng Qi Shi pian in Eastern Han Dynasty
look up to the past and look down on the present
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1.declare war on a country to punish it for its iniquities
declare war on a country to punish it for its iniquities - dà zhāng tà fá
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2.If the water is too strong, the drought will occur; if the arrow is too strong, the drought will occur
If the water is too strong, the drought will occur; if the arrow is too strong, the drought will occur - shuǐ jī zé hàn，shǐ jī zé yuǎn
Time 2021-03-06