toil at farm work(jià sè jiān nán)

toil at farm work

Farming is hard, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ji à s è Ji à NN á n, which means farming is hard. It's from the book of Wu Yi.

The origin of Idioms

"Shu Wu Yi" says: "the difficulty of the prophet's farming is Yi."

Idiom usage

Subject predicate type; as object; refers to farming. Example Feng Menglong's Xingshi Hengyan of Ming Dynasty, Volume 7: "there are many rich and noble children, who bear the false name of studying. They don't go to work for a living, wear top corner scarf, wear collar long clothes, and think they are superior. They become frivolous and don't know the difficulties at all."

Idioms and allusions

If the ancients wanted to know the difficulty of farming, it was also the way of doing business. Food is for the people, and the people cannot live without food. Three days without grain, father and son cannot live together. If you plough, hoe, harvest, accumulate, beat, whisk, and toss your hands into the barn, you can lighten farming and pay more attention to the end? The scholars of Jiangnan Dynasty crossed the river because of the prosperity of the middle Jin Dynasty. They were originally on a journey. Up to now, they have not been able to make a field. They have learned about their salary and eat their ears. If there are people who believe in the work of their servants, they will not know how many months now, how many months when they will be able to collect and know the rest of the world? Therefore, it's not easy to govern officials, but not to manage families. The reason why the ancients taught people to understand the hardship of farming was to make people cherish food and attach importance to agricultural labor. People live on food. Without food, they can't live. Three days without meals, father and son have no strength to greet each other. Grain can only be put into the granary after several processes, such as farming, weeding, harvesting, storage, spring threshing and field raising. How can we despise agriculture and attach importance to commerce? With the revival of Jin Dynasty, the officials of Jiangnan imperial court crossed the river southward and went to exile for eight or nine generations. No one has ever been engaged in agricultural production, but is totally dependent on salaries. If they had land, they would give it to young servants for farming. They had never seen anyone dig a piece of soil or plant a seedling. They didn't know when to sow or harvest. How could they know other things? Therefore, when they are officials, they will not know the world affairs, and when they manage their families, they will not manage their property. This is the harm brought about by maintaining respect and dealing with the good!

Chinese PinYin : jià sè jiān nán