homely fare

homely fare

Plain food, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is C à ch á D à NF à n, which means rough and simple diet. It comes from Song Dynasty Huang Tingjian's preface to the poems of Sixiu Daoshi.

The origin of Idioms

Huang Tingjian, Song Dynasty, wrote in his preface to the poems of the four retired guides: "if you have enough food and tea, you can retire immediately; if you have enough food and tea, you can retire immediately; if you have enough food and water, you can retire immediately; if you have enough food and water, you can retire immediately; if you have enough food and water, you can retire immediately; if you have enough food and water, you can retire immediately

Idiom usage

It is used as subject, predicate and object to describe simple food and poor life. Example 18 of Lao She's novel four generations in one house: "if this is before the war, I can find some part-time jobs to provide them with some ~.