coarse meals of a farming family
Maifandoutang is a Chinese idiom, pronounced m à if à nd à UG à ng, which means low living standard. It's from Ji Jiu pian.
explain
[idiom]: wheat rice and bean soup
[Pinyin]: m à if à nd à UG à ng
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Soup: soup. Refers to coarse food. It is used to describe the low standard of living.
allusion
[source]: Han Shi You's Ji Jiu Pian: "cake bait, wheat rice and sweet bean soup."
[example]: the wooden bed and stone pillow are cold family style, and the soul and dream are also cool when holding the quilt; the taste is light, and the teeth and cheeks are fragrant when putting the sheath. Hong Yingming's Caigen Tan: Leisure
usage
Grammar: used as an object or attribute; used in daily life
Chinese PinYin : mài fàn dòu gēng
coarse meals of a farming family
be six of one and half a dozen of the other. bàn jīn bā liǎng
settle one 's young wife in a golden house. jīn wū cáng jiāo
Keep the army for thousands of days. yǎng jūn qiān rì,yòng zài yī zhāo