hardship of travel without shelter

hardship of travel without shelter

It is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is C ā NF ē NGM ù y ǔ, which means to satisfy one's hunger with wind and wash one's hair with rain; it describes the hardships of travel or outdoor life. It comes from Zhongwu, a story of chivalrous men.

Idiom explanation

Meal: eat; bath: wash.

The origin of Idioms

Xu Sanjie of Ming Dynasty wrote "Zhongwu in the story of chivalrous men": "who knows that you are so used to female Huang and rampant, but you don't want to work hard for the emperor to start a business, and you don't want to be an advocate of abandoning the right and pursuing the evil."

Idiom usage

It's a kind of combination. It's used as predicate and attributive. It's used to describe the hardship of travel life. Example: Zhang Jing of Ming Dynasty wrote "the story of flying pill: no production of burying wheel": "having a meal in the wind and rain, sleeping in the cold and fighting in the frontier."