A grain of rice is a bundle of wages
It is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is l ì m ǐ sh ù x ī n, meaning that there is little food and firewood. It's from the second moment of surprise.
The idiom comes from Ling Mengchu of Ming Dynasty, Volume 24 of "two moment clapping a case in amazement": "a grain of rice is not enough for a salary, and the family is unprepared, but the wife is just complaining and crying."
Chinese PinYin : lì mǐ shù xīn
A grain of rice is a bundle of wages
be derelict in duty and run irrelevant business. bù wù zhèng yè
Seeing without hearing. shì ér bù jiàn,tīng ér bù wén
sense of propriety , justice , honesty and honour. lǐ yì lián chǐ