poor yet not losing one's righteousness
Poverty is not lost, idiom, Pinyin is Qi ó NGB ù sh ī y ì, meaning that although poor, but not lost etiquette. It's from Mencius with all his heart.
The origin of Idioms
"Mencius heart up" said: "so the poor scholars do not lose their righteousness, can not be separated from the road
Idiom usage
It means that people have backbone
Chinese PinYin : qióng bù shī yì
poor yet not losing one's righteousness
Selling public goods for personal gain. mài gōng yíng sī
leave a stink for ten thousand years. yí chòu wàn nián
can run in both directions unblockedly. chàng xíng wú ài
The clouds are disturbing and breaking. yún rǎo fú liè