look up to the past and look down on the present(zūn gǔ bēi jīn)

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

Chinese PinYin : zūn gǔ bēi jīn