Synonyms of "eating the past but not changing it"

• carve on gunwale of a moving boat kè zhōu qiú jiàn
  "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals - Chajin": "There was a man in Chu who crossed the river, and his sword fell into the water from the boat. He suddenly agreed with his boat and said, 'My sword fell from the boat.' When the boat stopped, he entered the water from the man he agreed with. The boat has already gone, but the sword is not good. If you want to ask for the sword, don't you also wonder?". Later, he used the phrase "seeking the sword in the face of adversity" to mean that he was obstinate and did not know how to adapt himself. Song Luyou's Xieliang Youxiangqi: "When the time comes, the bandits will have access to material." The 120th chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions: "If you want to find out the root cause like this, it is the time when the time comes." Xia Yan's "Emancipate the Mind, Unite and Advance": "Literary and artistic workers must face up to the current rapid changes in our country
• stick in the mud mò shǒu chéng guī
  It is also called "abiding by the law". During the Warring States Period, Mo Zhai was good at guarding the city, which was called "Mozhu" by the world. Later, "stick to the beaten track" refers to stubbornness of the old law. Wang Tao of the Qing Dynasty, in Wengyou's Essay on the Jewish Ancient Calendar, said: "Up to now, China and France have never been as close as Western France. What is the matter? Guy is careless, and he always sticks to the law and fails to bring forth new ideas." Li Liuru, Volume I, Chapter 4, Chapter 2: "You are also a military assistant. If you break the rules and introduce him as a comrade, it will be more beneficial. You can't stick to the rules." ◎ Conforming m ॶ sh ǒ u ch é nggu ī [stic
• stick to old ways stubbornly in the face of changed circumstances jiāo zhù gǔ sè
  When playing the zither, the string column on the zither cannot adjust the pitch. It means being stubborn and inflexible. The words come from "Records of the Historian · Biographies of Lin Xiangru in Lianpo": "Wang used his name to make Kuo, and if he was a rubber pillar, he would drum his ears. Kuo Tu could read his father's biography, but he did not know how to change." Song Li Gang's "Guizhou Answers to the Wu Yuan Zhongshu": "So at the beginning of Jingkang, you should guard when you are ready, and at the end of Jingkang, you should avoid when you are unprepared. How can you use the rubber pillar to drum your ears?" "Jinggong's rubber pillars are strung and the Three Gorges are connected, so why do you want to go to the Middle Gorge?" The fifth round of Dream of Red Mansions: "This elder sister Bao is also strung and pretentious."
• be set in one's way wán gù bù huà
  1. Obscure and conservative, stubborn and inflexible. The sixth chapter of A Brief History of Civilization: "The humble mansion was once a magistrate in that mansion, and the local people were extremely stubborn." The fifteenth chapter of Kefei's The Spring Tide Rush: "My father is still stubborn, not only disagrees with joining the society, but also refuses to attend the group meeting." 2. It means sticking to his mistakes and refusing to repent. Xu Fanting's Warning to the Spy in the Chinese Anti Japanese War Camp: "In the future, only you and the most stubborn people will be the sinners of the country and the world, which is the cheapest thing!" Chapter 6 of Liang Xin's From Slaves to Generals: "Say I am stubborn, which is guerrilla
• echo what the books say zhào běn xuān kē
  Metaphors cannot be used flexibly, and are read out rigidly according to ready-made articles or manuscripts. Guo Moruo's "My Childhood" 6: "The statement is purely scripted." Xia Yan's "Mistalk on the Emancipation of the Mind": "Write an article and copy it, and make a report." See "Xuanke". ◎ It is said that reading from the book is rigid and cannot be combined with reality. It is used to refer to the rigid reading of ready-made articles or manuscripts, without knowing how to use them flexibly. [Sentence] This
• be an anachronism bào cán shǒu quē
  See "Holding on to the Past". ◎ Stick to the incomplete b à oc á n-sh ǒǒǒǒ [conservative; beasticker (traditionalist) for the elderly and things]. To describe a person who is conservative in thought and does not know how to change means to stick to incomplete ancient books and articles, and is unwilling to give up. The latter analogy is to stick to the old things or ideas, but not to improve. [Sentence] The attitude of remaining incomplete is often an obstacle to promoting innovation. Stick to old things or ideas
• immutable and frozen yī chéng bù biàn
  The Book of Rites · The System of Kings: "If punishment is done, it will be done. If the punishment is done, it will be done. Once the punishment is done, it will not be changed, so the gentleman will be careful." Kong Yingdashu: "If the appearance is cut with a knife, it will not be continued. The dead cannot live, so the cloud cannot be changed." Later, "unchanged" means that once the punishment law is formulated, it cannot be changed. It also generally refers to being conservative and not flexible. Song Yeshi's "Going to Korea to Propose Punishment": "It is only necessary to make laws and regulations, but it is difficult to live between the two for a long time, and it is unchangeable." Mao Zedong's "Strategic Issues in China's Revolutionary War", Chapter 1, Section 1: "All war guiding laws develop according to historical development
• slow-witted míng wán bù líng
  Ignorant and stubborn. Tang Hanyu's "Sacrifice to Crocodile": "Otherwise, it is the crocodile who is indomitable. Although the governor has something to say, he doesn't know it." Ming Zhongxing's "Observation with the High Boy": "If you speak out in a frank way, you are also a mother-in-law, so it is an indomitable person." Lu Xun's "Three Leisure Stories: My Attitude, Tolerance and Age": "I am afraid that because I am 'indomitable', I have to use it." Liu Bannong's "Answering Mr. Feng": "Although I am stubborn, I also think it is too much to steal." Ignorant, stubborn and not psychic. [Sentence] It's really difficult to coach such stubborn children. Stupid and stubborn without spirituality. Don
• follow the beaten track nì gǔ bù huà
  Adhere to the ancient rules or the ancients' statements without knowing how to adapt. Zhang Ju of the Qing Dynasty's Liang Dynasty's "Essays on Retreat from the Buddhist Nunnery: Knowing the Soldiers": "The military strategists have written a book, and those who have learned from their own minds are not, nor are those who have not changed from the past." Zheng Guanying's "A Critical Message in the Prosperous Age · School": "I am confident that I am not a person who has not changed from the past. If there is a solid basis or a basis that makes people feel more comfortable, it is enough to overturn the old theory. I also voluntarily abandon the old and start new, and will never fall behind others." Ni Gu is bound by the ancient rules or statements of the ancients. follow the beaten track...
• accept sth. uncritically shēng tūn huó bō
  1. It is used as a metaphor to copy or imitate rigidly. The script of Tang Liu Su's New Words of the Tang Dynasty - Scherzo: "Li Yifu tried to compose a poem saying: 'The moon is carved into a singing fan, and clouds are cut into dance clothes. Self pity returns to the snow shadow, so as to get back to Luochuan.' There is a poem written by Zhang Huaiqing, a lieutenant of Zaoqiang, who likes to steal famous scholars' articles. It is because of the poem saying: 'The moon is carved into a singing fan, and clouds are cut out of mind to make dance clothes. Looking in the mirror, self pity returns to the snow shadow, so as to get back to Luochuan from time to time. ’As the saying goes, 'Strip Wang Changling alive and swallow Guo Zhengyi alive.' " The third article in the Fish Buddha by the Ming Yushan hermit: "Another thing is that he has taken his own high reputation for other people's words. What happened to the elder who was eaten alive by him?" Qing Qian Qianyi's "Reading Du Xiaojian": "Hongzheng
• read without thorough understanding bù qiú shèn jiě
  Jin Taoqian's "Biography of Mr. Wu Liu": "Do not admire profits, read well, do not ask for a clear understanding, and gladly forget to eat every time you have an idea." It means that reading only wants to understand the gist, and does not deliberately spend time on words. Today, it means not taking study and work seriously and not seeking in-depth understanding. Qu Qiubai's "Luan Tan · Xiao Zhuge": "He knows thousands of Chinese characters, but he does not seek to understand them." Mao Zedong's "Preface and Postscript to Rural Investigation": "Now many of our comrades still maintain a careless and unintelligible style." ◎ "unintelligible" b ù qi ú - sh è nji ě (1
• read without understanding shí ér bù huà　
  Eat without digesting. The figure of speech fails to understand the learned knowledge. Zhu Ziqing's Preface to "Classic Common Talk": "Classical training has become the only item of education, which is naturally withered and out of balance; moreover, since childhood, students' eating without eating has also destroyed their energy and interests in vain." ◎ Eating without eating has sh í é rb ù hu à [swallow without understanding] to eat without digesting. This is a metaphor for not understanding what you have learned and not using it