Food is the essence of the people(mín yǐ shí wéi tiān)

Food is the essence of the people

Food for the people is a Chinese idiom. The Pinyin is m í NY ǐ sh í w é ITI ā n, which means that people live on food. According to the biography of Li Sheng and Lu Jia in historical records, "the king regards the people as heaven, while the people regard food as heaven."

explain

Food: food, food. It also refers to grain and implies the production resources needed for the operation of grain. Sky: sky, God. It refers to the most important thing for survival. the people depend on grain for their livelihood, and expand the resources that the people need to produce grain and other necessities to survive. heaven: the most important thing for survival. The people live on grain. It refers to the importance of folk food.

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According to the biography of Li Sheng and Lu Jia in historical records, "the king regards the people as heaven, while the people regard food as heaven." Yi hexagram explains that food is heaven, two chopsticks and two numbers are congenitally hexagrams. For food, for mouth. The shape of chopsticks is straight and long. Xun, for wood, for entry. Put together, you eat with chopsticks. What's at the entrance? It's chopsticks. The head of chopsticks is round, which is the hexagram of Qian, and Qian is heaven. Isn't that heaven? Therefore, it is believed that "food is the most important thing for the people" comes from here.

usage

Compound sentence form; as object and attribute

Examples

The country is based on the people, and the people are based on food. (Annals of the Three Kingdoms by Chen Shou)

allusion

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, there was a scholar named Li Shiqi, who was very knowledgeable. He once offered advice to help Liu Bang win over Chen Liu, and was granted the title of emperor Guangye. After the fall of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu fought for hegemony. Liu Bang united with anti Xiang Yu forces to defend Xingyang and Chenggao. There is Aoshan mountain in the northwest of Xingyang. There is a small city on the mountain. It was built in the Qin Dynasty. Because there are many special grain warehouses in the city, it became aocang. It was the largest granary in Guandong at that time. Under Xiang Yu's fierce attack, Liu Bang plans to retreat and give up the east of Chenggao to Xiang Yu. Liu Bang wants to hear Li Shiqi's ideas. Li Shiqi said: "the king takes the people as the heaven, and the people take food as the heaven. The Chu army doesn't know how to guard the granary and go east. This is a good chance for heaven to help the Han Dynasty succeed! If we give up Chenggao, retreat to Gongluo and hand over such an important granary to the enemy, it will be very detrimental to the current situation! I hope you can quickly organize your troops and stick to aocang, which will certainly change the current unfavorable situation. " Liu Bang followed the plan and finally won.

Chinese PinYin : mín yǐ shí wéi tiān