The people are poor and the country is poor(mín kùn guó pín)

The people are poor and the country is poor

Poor people and poor country, the Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m í NK ù NGU ó P í n, which means that the people are poor, the country is poor. It's from the general mirror of continued capital governance.

The origin of Idioms

He Qu Zhi I, a history of the Song Dynasty, said: "when the natural calamity was drought, and the people were poor and the country was poor, if we didn't measure the manpower and didn't go with the weather, we knew that there were five things we couldn't do."

Idiom usage

Used as an object or attributive; used in the current situation. Example Volume 55 of general lesson of xuzizhi written by Bi Yuan of Qing Dynasty: "at this time of natural disaster, drought and poverty, there are five things that can't be done if we don't measure manpower and go against the weather..."

Chinese PinYin : mín kùn guó pín