English Explanatory Dictionary

Four Olds

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The four traditional things targeted for destruction during China's Cultural Revolution, usually translated as old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas.

Word forms

Four Olds the Four Olds

Etymology

Calque of Chinese 四舊 /四旧 (Sìjiù, “the four old (things)”)

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