[Explanation]: Hold on to the broken and obsolete things. Describe conservative thinking and not seeking improvement. [Idiom story]: This idiom is the first work

"Protecting the disabled and guarding the defects" can be seen in "Hanshu Liu Xin's Biography": "I still want to protect the defects, and I am afraid of seeing the selfish intentions, but I can't serve the righteousness of the public heart." "In the Western Han Dynasty, there was a man named Liu Xin, whose name was Zijun, who was the son of the famous scholar Liu Xiang, and was once worshiped as Huangmenlang (an attendant of the inner court).

Later, he and Liu Xiang were in charge of collating and collating classics and conducting academic research. In the proofreading work, he read a lot of secret ancient books and found an ancient text "The Biography of the Zuo Family in the Spring and Autumn Period", which he couldn't put down.

After research, Liu Xin believed that the "Zuo Chuan" was a precious document, so he suggested that the "Zuo Chuan" and other ancient books should be established as scholars.

After Emperor Han Ai (Liu Xin) learned of this, he ordered Liu Xin and the Doctor of the Five Classics to talk about the righteousness of a number of ancient books such as "Zuo Chuan".

However, Dr. Zhu did not agree to the establishment of scholars for the "Zuo Chuan" and other scholars, and refused to discuss and study the matter. Liu Xin was very angry at Dr. Zhong's attitude, and wrote an official letter to Dr. Guan's Taichang, criticizing and protesting against it.

Liu Xin wrote: These doctors are uneducated, unskilled, unheard, and afraid that others will see through their selfish intentions, and have no public heart to obey the truth, so they cling to the old ways and refuse to explore new knowledge.

Because of Liu Xin's bitter words, the doctors resented and were slandered as a result. Later, Liu Xin invited himself to become a petty official.

According to this story, posterity is extended

The idiom "clinging to the remnants and keeping the defects" originally meant to keep the old and broken things and refuse to give up. Nowadays, it is often used as a metaphor for being conservative and unwilling to accept new things.

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