老张一向不喜欢新事物，真是个不折不扣的顽固派！

Senior Zhang has always hated new things, he's a real conservative!

他把坚持留守的几千名民众称为“顽固派%。”

As for the few thousand people who insisted on staying behind, he called them hard-headed.

洋务派的理论和实践遭到同一阵营的传统习惯势力“顽固派”的反对。

The theory and practice of "Westernization group" suffered the opposition of "the diehards" of traditional force in the same camp.