Cháng Jiāng hòu làng cuī qián làng; (yī tì xīnrén huàn jiù rén).

長江後浪催前浪, (一替新人換舊人)。

Lit [Just as in] the Yangtse River, the waves behind push on those ahead, ([so] new-comers replace the old-[timers]).

Fig Inevitably each generation is replaced by (and often surpassed by) the next.

Note [Cf. Wǔ Sōng, chap. 1; now said “... tuī qián làng; yī dài xīn rén huàn jiù rén”; the second half is often omitted.]

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