have only bare necessities at home(shēn wú cháng chù)

have only bare necessities at home

In Chinese, Pinyin is sh ē NW ú ch á ngch ù, which means there is nothing more than one body. It used to mean living frugally. Poverty is now described. It's from a new saying of the world - moral conduct written by Liu Yiqing of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Liu Yiqing of the Southern Song Dynasty wrote "a new account of the world · moral conduct": "(Wang Gong) said to each other:" the father-in-law does not know Gong, and Gong has no talent to be a man. "

Chinese PinYin : shēn wú cháng chù