study the past and foretell the future changes
Looking back, the Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Gu ā NW ǎ ngzhi ī L á I, which means that if we study the past carefully, we can speculate about the future. From Liezi Shuo Fu.
The origin of Idioms
In Liezi Shuo Fu written by Zheng lieyukou in the Warring States period, it is said that "it is the reason why sages see that they come to know by knowing what they have come to, and that is the reason why they are prophets."
Idiom usage
To see the past is to know the future
Chinese PinYin : guān wǎng zhī lái
study the past and foretell the future changes
The dog and the fowl do not hear. jī quǎn bù wén
scheme exhausted and situation pressing. jì qióng shì pò
render outstanding service and be famous. bài jiàng fēng hóu