Verses that express farewell to the past and start again:

1. The past does not rebuke, and those who come are easy to come by. ——From Song Dynasty Liu Yizhi's "My Own Praise"

Vernacular translation: The past cannot be redeemed, but the future can still catch up.

2. If you understand the past, you should not admonish it, but if you know what is coming, you can pursue it. ——From Tao Yuanming's "Come Back and Returning"

Vernacular translation: I no longer want to redeem the past, because I know that I want to pursue the future.

3. Although there is no regret in the past, we can still pursue it in the future. ——From "Seventy Rhymes of the Frustrated Friend Pan Zhen" by Liu Yan of the Song Dynasty

Vernacular translation: Although you regret the past, you can still start to pursue the future again.

4. The long road to Xiongguan is really like iron, but now we are crossing it from the beginning. ——From contemporary?·?Mao Zedong's "Recalling Qin'e·Loushanguan"?

Vernacular translation: Don't say that the mountains are undulating like iron and are insurmountable. Now let us regain our strength and move forward.

5. Those who have gone by cannot be admonished, but those who have come can still be pursued. ——From the Pre-Qin Dynasty·Anonymous "The Song of Chu Kuang's Reception"

Vernacular translation: Things in the past cannot be stopped, but there is still time to prevent things in the future. The implication is, start over.

Idioms expressing starting over:

1. Make a comeback, pronounced juǎn tǔ chóng lái, which mostly refers to reorganizing forces after failure. From "Ti Wu Jiang Pavilion" by Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty: The children of Jiangdong are many talented people, and their comeback is unknown. (Vernacular translation: Overlord of Western Chu, there are many talented people from Jiangdong. If we can regroup and make a comeback, it is hard to say who will lose and who will win when Chu and Han fight.)

2. The dead tree blooms in spring, the pronunciation is kū mù féng chūn means that dry trees regain their vitality in spring. It is a metaphor for a dying patient or thing to regain life. From Song Dynasty Shi Daoyuan's "Jingde Chuan Leng Lu": How does a dead tree look like when spring comes? (How about the dry trees that regained their vitality when they encountered spring.)

3. To revive, pronounced chóng zhěng qí gǔ, means to reorganize and start again after failure (waving the flag) and drumming were the ancient marching orders). From Xiang Lingzi of the Qing Dynasty, "Xuan Ting Injustice: Shocking Dream": If you want to regain your strength, I would like to trouble you to write an article on gender equality to exhort women. (Vernacular translation: If you want to regain your strength, then you have to write an article about gender equality to persuade women.

)