eat chaff and herbs for half the year(kāng cài bàn nián liáng)

eat chaff and herbs for half the year

Half a year's grain with bran vegetables is selected from the story of Liu Jiang in Taihang Fengyun

[Pinyin] K ā NGC à IB à NNI á NLI á ng [allusion] it's always half a year's worth of food. This year, we should start early and press more two jars of bean leaf vegetables. In Liu Jiang's Taihang Fengyun, rice bran and vegetables are used to replace grain for half a year. The working people in the old society lived in extreme poverty. There are no tigers in the mountains, monkeys are called king, eternal rise and fall, Linzhi is auspicious, unknown, the front door refuses the tiger, the back door refuses the wolf, the back door learns from others' strong points, Zang Gu's sheep, 120 lines, make use of their strong points, change from the old to the new, etc. [other uses] However, under the oppression and feudal exploitation of the nation, the Tong people still lived a miserable life of "half a year's grain and half a year's grain".

Chinese PinYin : kāng cài bàn nián liáng