Pick up old stories(shí chén dǎo gù)

Pick up old stories

To follow the platitudes.

Idioms and allusions

[source] yuan · Liu Xun's "general discussion on seclusion · poem 3": "it's wonderful to see it. It's a family of its own. It's not willing to pick up the old stories."

Discrimination of words

Be conservative

Usage: used as predicate, attribute and object

Chinese PinYin : shí chén dǎo gù