Poor but not thrifty(pín bù xué jiǎn)

Poor but not thrifty

Poor people do not learn to be thrifty, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is p í Nb ù Xu é Ji ǎ n, which means that poor people do not have to learn to be thrifty but have to be thrifty. It comes from the biography of Ren Cheng, Chen Xiao and Wang Zhang in the annals of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Zhi.

The origin of Idioms

In the biography of Three Kingdoms · Wei Zhi · Ren Cheng, Chen Xiao and Wang Zhang: "this is called" Pei Songzhi's note quoted Three Kingdoms · Wei · Yu Huan as saying: "as the saying goes:" if you are poor, you will not learn to be thrifty, so that you will not learn to be respectful. "It is not human nature, but it is the result of power." "The poor do not learn to be thrifty, the rich do not learn to be extravagant."

Idiom usage

Used as an object or attribute; used in writing. The poor do not learn to be thrifty, but frugality comes; the rich do not learn to be extravagant, but luxury comes. The famous sayings of Nanyu by Jiang Chaobo in Qing Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : pín bù xué jiǎn