lead a hard life

lead a hard life

Morning and evening salt, Chinese idiom, Pinyin zh ā OJ ī m ù y á n, breakfast with chopped pickles, dinner with salt. Simple diet, simple life.

Classics

Han Yu's essay on sending the poor: in the fourth year of Taixue's reign, he lived in the morning and in the evening. I'm the only one who can protect you. (Qing Dynasty) Qian Qianyi's epitaph of Qin's mother Qian taiyiren: taiyiren's life is full of salt in the morning and in the evening.

Discrimination

Synonym: simple food antonym: delicacies usage: as predicate, attributive; describes the extreme hardships of life.