Ten rice nine chaff
Ten meters nine chaff, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh í m ǐ Ji ǔ K ā ng, meaning to describe poverty. It comes from Guan Hanqing's saving the wind and dust in Yuan Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
The third part of Yuan Dynasty Guan Hanqing's "save the wind and dust" is: "I'm struggling to find out why two wives and three wives have suffered a lot."
Idiom usage
As an object, attribute, etc
Chinese PinYin : shí mǐ jiǔ kāng
Ten rice nine chaff
A hundred clumsy and a thousand ugly. bǎi zhuō qiān chǒu
have the soul of a musician and the courage of a warrior. qín xīn jiàn dǎn
the vapour rose up to the sky. qì chōng niú dǒu