poor clothing and poor food

poor clothing and poor food

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is C ū y ī è sh í, which means poor food and clothing. To describe a simple life. It comes from the biography of Sima Lang in the annals of the Three Kingdoms.

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Poor food and clothing. To describe a simple life.

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According to the biography of Sima Lang in the annals of the Three Kingdoms, although he was in the military, he was often coarse in clothes and fastidious in food, and thrifty in order to lead.

Examples

Madam, in prison, all the money is for the poor prisoners. (Biography of Lady Roland by Liang Qichao in Qing Dynasty)