往事

past events / former happenings

to go (in a direction) / to / towards / (of a train) bound for / past / previous

old variant of 往[wang3]

matter / thing / item / work / affair / CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]

the past is vanished like the wind; gone beyond recall

the past is dead (idiom)