"Clothes are not as good as new, people are not as good as old" can be used as an object and attribute, usually used in written language.
This sentence first came from the fifth chapter of the fifth volume of Yanzi Chunqiu: "Clothes are new, people are old."
In addition, the Yuefu Ancient Yan Ge also wrote: "I am a white rabbit, and I am looking around. Clothes are not as good as new, and people are not as good as old. " It describes that the abandoned wife was forced to leave, just like a lonely little white rabbit, running around, although she left, she still missed her old friend. This passage is to persuade old friends to be nostalgic, not to say that old friends are necessarily better than new friends.
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"Ancient" can be found in "Tai Lan" volume 689, and the author is unknown. The Selected Works of Ming and Qing Dynasties is often written by Dou Xuan's wife as "Complaining about Ancient Songs".
The story of 30 Dou Xuan's wife in Selected Works said: "Dou Xuan's appearance in the later Han Dynasty was absolutely different, and the son of heaven married a concubine. My wife bid farewell to Xuan Shu:' Abandoning my wife and scolding my daughter to worship Bai Dousheng: cheap is not as expensive as expensive. My wife is far away, and I am near. What did you tell me? I shouted to heaven. Sadness wins! Clothes never tire of being new, and people never tire of being old. Sadness is unbearable and resentment persists. He is a man, but he lives in the right place. ""There is no mention that Dou Xuan's wife wrote this song. Today, it is still from Taiping Yu Lan.
"Gu" is a poem about abandoning a wife. The first two sentences are all metaphors with animals as the theme, and the last two sentences are to convince an old friend to be nostalgic.
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Baidu encyclopedia-clothes are not as good as new ones, and people are not as good as old ones.