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Trad. 舊學
- old learning
- Chinese traditional teaching as opposed to material from the West
Trad. 舊年
- last year
- the Chinese New Year (i.e. the new year in the old calendar)
Trad. 舊教
- the Old Religion (i.e. Roman Catholicism) 天主教[Tian1 zhu3 jiao4], as opposed to Protestantism 新教[Xin1 jiao4]
Trad. 舊曆
- old calendar
- the Chinese lunar calendar
- same as 農曆|农历[nong2 li4]
Trad. 舊物
- old property (esp. inherited from former generation)
- former territory
Trad. 舊聞
- outdated news
- old anecdote; stories passed on from former times
Trad. 舊賬
- lit. old account
- old debt
- fig. old scores to settle
- old quarrels
- old grudge
Trad. 做舊
- to give (sth) an antique look; to artificially age; to distress
Trad. 念舊
- to remember old friends
- to cherish old friendships
- for old time's sake
Trad. 翻舊賬
- to turn over old accounts
- fig. to revive old quarrels
- to reopen old wounds
Trad. 個舊市
- Gejiu, a county-level city in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture 紅河哈尼族彝族自治州|红河哈尼族彝族自治州[Hong2 he2 Ha1 ni2 zu2 Yi2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan
Trad. 守舊派
- person who sticks to old ways; a diehard; a conservative
Trad. 舊唐書
- History of the Early Tang Dynasty, sixteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Liu Xu 劉昫|刘昫[Liu2 Xu4] in 945 during Later Jin 後晉|后晋[Hou4 Jin4] of the Five Dynasties, 200 scrolls
Trad. 破四舊
- Destroy the Four Olds (campaign of the Cultural Revolution)
Trad. 舊大陸
- the Old World
- Eurasia as opposed to the New World 新大陸|新大陆[xin1 da4 lu4] or the Americas
Trad. 舊字體
- kyujitai, traditional Japanese character used before 1946
Trad. 舊調子
- old tune
- fig. conservative opinion
- the same old stuff
Trad. 因循守舊
- (idiom) to continue in the same old rut
- diehard conservative attitudes
Trad. 新瓶舊酒
- old wine in a new bottle (idiom)
Trad. 重修舊好
- to make friends again
- to renew old cordial relations
Trad. 舊五代史
- History of the Five Dynasties (between Tang and Song), eighteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Xue Juzheng 薛居正[Xue1 Ju1 zheng4] in 974 during Northern Song 北宋[Bei3 Song4], 150 scrolls
Trad. 舊地重遊
- (idiom) to return to a place after a long time away
Trad. 喜新厭舊
- lit. to like the new, and hate the old (idiom); fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new girlfriend), bored with the old
Trad. 不念舊惡
- do not recall old grievances (idiom, from Analects); forgive and forget
Trad. 舊愁新恨
- old worries with new hatred added (idiom); afflicted by problems old and new
Trad. 舊態復萌
- see 故態復萌|故态复萌[gu4 tai4 fu4 meng2]
Trad. 汰舊換新
- out with the old and in with the new (idiom)
Trad. 送舊迎新
- usher out the old, greet the new
- esp. to see in the New Year
Trad. 重提舊事
- to raise the same old topic again
- to hark back
Trad. 舊景重現
- scenes of the past reappear; evocation of the past
Trad. 重操舊業
- to resume one's old trade (idiom)
Trad. 舊熱帶界
- (biogeography) the Afrotropical realm
Trad. 舊病復發
- old illness recurs (idiom); a relapse
- fig. to repeat an old error
- the same old problem
Trad. 舊調重彈
- replaying the same old tunes (idiom); conservative, unoriginal and discredited
- to keep harping on about the same old stuff
Trad. 破舊立新
- to get rid of the old to bring in the new (idiom); to innovate
Trad. 舊貨市場
- sale of second-hand goods
- flea market
Trad. 重歷舊遊
- to revisit
- to return to a previously visited spot
Trad. 舊車市場
- second-hand car market
- used bike market
Trad. 重溫舊夢
- to revive old dreams (idiom); to relive past experiences
Trad. 重溫舊業
- to resume one's old trade (idiom)
Trad. 除舊布新
- to get rid of the old to bring in the new (idiom); to innovate
Trad. 除舊更新
- to replace the old with new (idiom)
Trad. 戀舊情結
- dwelling on the past
- difficulty in adapting to changes
Trad. 新愁舊恨
- new worries added to old hatred (idiom); afflicted by problems old and new
Trad. 率由舊章
- to act in accordance with the old rules (idiom)
- to follow a proven formula
Trad. 新瓶裝舊酒
- old wine in a new bottle (idiom)
Trad. 舊瓶裝新酒
- lit. new wine in old bottles; fig. new concepts in an old framework
- (loan idiom from Matthew 9:17, but fig. meaning is opposite)
Trad. 舊民主主義革命
- old democratic revolution
- bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
Trad. 舊的不去，新的不來
- lit. If the old doesn't go, the new will not come.
- You can't make progress by clinging to old notions.