follow the beaten track(shí gǔ bù huà)

follow the beaten track

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh í g à B ú Hu à, which means reading and painting, blindly learning from the ancients, sticking to the old methods and not good at flexible use. It refers to the lack of a thorough understanding of the ancient knowledge learned and the inability to apply it according to the present situation. It comes from the record of the painting of yujishanfang.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] archaic and stereotyped

Idiom usage

Serial verb; predicate, attribute; derogatory. (1) Ma Nan Cun's "thirty six strategies of Yanshan night talk": "there is no need to be too rigid about this kind of problem, so as to eat the old and not change it." If we don't use dialectical materialism to study ancient cultural heritage, we will.

The origin of Idioms

In the Qing Dynasty, Chen wrote the volume of yujishanfang Wailu and downloaded Yun Xiang's tizizuhuashu: "it can be seen that if you want to serve the ancients, you can't eat the ancients, you can't draw a tiger, you can't carve a boat for a sword, and so on."

Chinese PinYin : shí gǔ bù huà