Rough robes and rough food

Rough robes and rough food

Coarse robes and food, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is C ū P á ol ì sh í, meaning coarse food and clothing. To describe a simple life. It comes from the biography of Yuan Jing in the later Han Dynasty.

The idiom comes from Fan Ye's biography of Yuan Jing in the book of the later Han Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, Song Dynasty: "when I went to the Qing Dynasty, I served as an official in coarse robes and food, and finally I was able to talk about my husband."