慎终追远

to pay careful attention to one's parents' funerary rites

careful / cautious

old variant of 慎[shen4]

end / finish

to sculpt / to carve / musical instrument (old)

to chase / to pursue / to look into / to investigate / to reminisce / to recall / to court (one's beloved) / to binge-watch (a TV drama) / retroactively / posthumously

far / distant / remote / (intensifier in a comparison) by far / much (lower etc)

to distance oneself from (classical)