poor clothing and poor food

poor clothing and poor food

It is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is è y ī L ì sh í, which means to wear coarse clothes and eat rice made of brown rice to describe a simple life. It comes from the theory of Li Yi Xin enough to become morality.

Idiom explanation

Chen: brown rice.

The origin of Idioms

Su Shi of the Song Dynasty wrote in his theory that "all the people who have a country should have evil clothes and food, and work together with the farmers to cure one person, but they are all workers."

Idiom usage

As an object or complement; of coarse clothes or food. Example: we should be thrifty when we are ill fed. The biography of Zhang Mao in the history of the Yuan Dynasty

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms: bad clothes and coarse food, bad clothes and bad food; Antonyms: good clothes and good food