The meaning of learning from the past is roughly the same as that of learning from the past.
A lesson from the past is a lesson from the future. Learn about the past as a reference for today.
The source of the allusion: The first discount of the anonymous Taiping Banquet in Ming Dynasty: "It is no small matter to drive Cao Cao out of Wu by knowing the modern people."
It is very important to know the past to serve the present and drive Cao out Wu, which should not be underestimated.
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Other similar phrases and sentences:
(1) Disciples with the past: Disciples: people of the same kind. Make friends with the ancients.
(2) satirize the present through the ancient times: satirize the reality by commenting on ancient people and things.
(3) Lessons from the past: Learn from the successes and failures in history.
(4) Metaphor from the past to the present: metaphor: explanation. Borrow ancient things to explain today's events or reasons.
(5) Take the past as the present: right and wrong: censure and denial. Attack current politics with historical stories.
(6) borrowing from the past to describe the present: borrowing: borrowing; Metaphor: metaphor. Compare the present with ancient things and the present in reality.