Hunger and toil
Hunger and hard work, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ī B ǎ ol á oy ì, which means to live hard and eat at random. It comes from the third fold of Black Whirlwind by Gao Wenxiu of Yuan Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
Yuan · Gao Wenxiu "Black Whirlwind" the third fold: "my brother in three dynasties five days, can then endure hunger, five or six days did not taste water and rice, as the saying goes, hunger and hard work."
Idiom usage
As an object or attribute, it refers to people's life
Analysis of Idioms
Food and toil
Chinese PinYin : jī bǎo láo yì
Hunger and toil
appoint upright and remove the crooked ones -- to replace the bad ones by good ones. jǔ zhí cuò wǎng
for many , many years to come. rì jiǔ tiān cháng
burn books and bury the literati in pits. fén diǎn kēng rú
peace and tranquility under heaven. hǎi yàn hé qīng
look up to the past and look down on the present. zūn gǔ bēi jīn
one 's sabre-rattling is getting louder and the smell of gunpowder thicker. xuè yǔ xīng fēng