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Open the tool →去其糟粕,存其精华 (qù qí zāo pò , cún qí jīng huá) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to discard what is worthless or inferior and retain what is valuable or essential; to separate the wheat from the chaff”.
去其糟粕,存其精华 is pronounced qù qí zāo pò , cún qí jīng huá in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 去其糟粕,存其精华 means “Discard its dross, keep its essence”. It is used to mean “to discard what is worthless or inferior and retain what is valuable or essential; to separate the wheat from the chaff”.
糟粕:酒糟,比喻无用的东西。把有用的东西留下,把无用的东西丢掉