small tradesmen and porters
Peddler is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is f à NF à Z à uz ú, which means peddler and servant. A person of low status. The source is the epitaph of Wang Zhongqu.
The origin of Idioms
According to the epitaph of Wang Zhongqu written by Gong Zizhen in Qing Dynasty, "it is well known that Wang Juren was a peddler in the south of the great river, in the north of the great river, in the south of Fujian, Guangdong and Rehe."
Idiom usage
As an object or attributive, it refers to people of low social status. The life of a peddler is also very down-to-earth.
small tradesmen and porters
A letter from home is worth ten thousand dollars - jiā shū dǐ wàn jīn
all is thrown into the eastward flowing stream - jìn fù dōng liú