Rough clothes and poor food(cū yī lì shí)
Rough clothes and poor food
Coarse clothes and food, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is C ū y ī L ì sh í, which means to wear coarse clothes and eat coarse rice. The living standard is very low. It also means not pursuing the enjoyment of life. It comes from Volume 3 of five Lantern Festival yuan by Song Shi Puji.
The origin of Idioms
The third volume of "five Lantern Festival yuan" written by Shi Puji in Song Dynasty: "thick clothes can cover the cold, while food can live."
Idiom usage
Thirty years is like a day. It's hard life. Ye tingwan's Oupi Yuhua: Hou Zhongjie's father and son writing for Tongbin in Qing Dynasty
Analysis of Idioms
Synonyms: plain food, plain clothes and bad food
Chinese PinYin : cū yī lì shí
Rough clothes and poor food
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