personally practise thrifty
Practice thrift, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is g ō NGX í ngji é Ji ǎ n, which means to be thrifty by oneself. It comes from the biography of Huo Guang in the book of Han by Ban Gu in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ban Gu's biography of Huo guangzhuan in the book of Han Dynasty: "the teacher receives the poems, the Analects of Confucius, the filial piety, practises thrift, and loves people with benevolence."
Idiom usage
To economize by oneself
Chinese PinYin : gōng xíng jié jiǎn
personally practise thrifty
no one picks up what 's left by the wayside. dào bù shí yí
The peach and the plum are self-evident, and they make their own way. táo lǐ bù yán,xià zì chéng háng
The mountain withers and the stone dies. shān kū shí sǐ
as a little bird rests upon a man -- a timid and lovable little woman. fēi niǎo yī rén