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poor

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is d ā ns ì PI á oy ǐ n, which means a scoop of food and a scoop of water. It describes a scholar's contented life in poverty. From the Analects of Confucius Yongye.

Idioms and allusions

Confucius is a great educator, with 3000 students, among whom 72 are the most famous. Yan Hui is his favorite. In Confucius' opinion, every move of Yan Hui is good, so Confucius often educates other disciples about what Yan Hui did. Once, Confucius grasped Yan Hui's problems of food, drink and daily life and gave full play to them. He thought that Yan Hui was too noble to be done by others. He could do something that was worth learning. He said: "a pot of food, a pot of drink, in the alley, people can not afford to worry about, back to the same pleasure. What a virtuous person It means that Yan Hui eats with bamboo utensils, drinks with wooden ladles, and lives in a simple alley. This is a miserable life that others can't bear, but Yan Hui is still happy. How noble, Yan Hui! People simplify "eating with food and drinking with water" to "eating with food and drinking with water", which describes a very poor life. In the Analects of Confucius, Yongye said, "a pot of food, a pot of drink, in the lane, people can't bear to worry, back also can't change their happiness. What a wise man Later, it is used as the allusion of simple life and contented poverty.

The origin of Idioms

Yongye, the Analects of Confucius: "a pot of food, a ladle of drink, in the poor lane, people can not afford to worry, back also can not change their happiness."

Idiom usage

It can be used as subject, object and attributive. It can be used to describe simple life, but it is enough to be immortal. Han Yu's book with Li Ao in Tang Dynasty

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] live frugally, eat sparingly, and eat extravagantly