Rough clothes and poor food

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