Fight for food(chǐ bǎn dòu shí)

Fight for food

Chi ban Dou Shi, a Chinese idiom, is ch ǐ B ǎ nd ò ush í in pinyin, which means that in the old days, it was used to describe a small official with a low salary. It comes from the biography of Wang sengru in the book of Liang.

The origin of Idioms

According to the biography of Wang Seng Ru in the book of Liang, "I have been an official fighting for food for a long time, and I have been fighting for food with soap and black ribbon."

Idiom usage

It refers to the official position is low, but not to Zhang Fu's scholars, who fight with each other, who have no Han Tsui palace merchants, who have no scale of Qin and Liu. Kuang Zhouyi's Huifeng Cihua Volume 2

Chinese PinYin : chǐ bǎn dòu shí