Rough clothes and poor food
Coarse clothes and food, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is C ū y ī L ì sh í, which means to wear coarse clothes and eat coarse rice. The living standard is very low. It also means not pursuing the enjoyment of life. It comes from Volume 3 of five Lantern Festival yuan by Song Shi Puji.
The origin of Idioms
The third volume of "five Lantern Festival yuan" written by Shi Puji in Song Dynasty: "thick clothes can cover the cold, while food can live."
Idiom usage
Thirty years is like a day. It's hard life. Ye tingwan's Oupi Yuhua: Hou Zhongjie's father and son writing for Tongbin in Qing Dynasty
Analysis of Idioms
Synonyms: plain food, plain clothes and bad food
Rough clothes and poor food
be prepared for danger in times of peace - jū ān lǜ wēi
a vast territory with a sparse population - dì kuàng rén xī
Go to the East and go to the West - dōng zhēng xī tǎo
man should have feeling of shame - xiàng shǔ yǒu pí