贵远贱近
Traditional form:
貴遠賤近
Pinyin (reading):
guìyuǎnjiànjìn
Definitions:
- to revere the past and despise the present (idiom)
Characters:
- 贵 - expensive, costly; valuable, precious
- 远 - distant, remote, far; profound
- 贱 - cheap, low, mean, worthless
- 近 - to approach; near, close; intimate
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