poor clothing and poor food(è yī è shí)

poor clothing and poor food

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is è y ī è sh í, meaning coarse clothes and food. From the Analects of Confucius · Liren.

Notes on Idioms

Evil: coarse.

The origin of Idioms

In the Analects of Confucius, Li Ren said: "the scholars who are determined to live in the Tao and are ashamed of eating and dressing badly are not enough to discuss."

Idiom usage

In combination, as an object or complement, it refers to coarse clothes and food. Example a gentleman who cares about Tao but not poverty, a scholar who is determined to do it, and who is ashamed of being ill dressed and ill fed, is not enough to discuss. Zhang Binglin's "on the advantages of reading classics without disadvantages" and Han Ban Gu's "on the biography of Wang Mang in the history of Han Dynasty" said: "bad clothes and bad food, bad cars and bad horses."

Chinese PinYin : è yī è shí