Dethrone extravagance and advocate thrift
It is a Chinese idiom, pronounced ch ù sh ē ch ó ngji ǎ n, which means abolishing luxury and advocating frugality. It's from the chronicle of Lang Qian.
Idiom explanation
Get rid of luxury and advocate frugality.
The origin of Idioms
Chen Kangqi's "Lang Qian Ji Wen" in the Qing Dynasty, Volume 7: "in a certain year of Jiaqing, the emperor made the" Dragon Boat watching poem ". The life word minister Geng he. All the people are embarrassed by the rhyme of the word "water frolic". Only one of them, Chen Taishi song of the Tang Dynasty, said: "the fish and Dragons of all nations are Manyan, and the nine pearls and jade are forbidden to frolic." In the upper part of the cover, the theory of "dethroning extravagance and advocating thrift" was used to show the officials
Word usage
It's not extravagant and frugal in nature, but it's called ~ for the purpose of teaching. A study of benevolence by Tan Sitong in Qing Dynasty
Dethrone extravagance and advocate thrift
the earth trembled and the mountains swayed - dì dòng shān cuī