personally practise thrifty

personally practise thrifty

Practice thrift, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is g ō NGX í ngji é Ji ǎ n, which means to be thrifty by oneself. It comes from the biography of Huo Guang in the book of Han by Ban Gu in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ban Gu's biography of Huo guangzhuan in the book of Han Dynasty: "the teacher receives the poems, the Analects of Confucius, the filial piety, practises thrift, and loves people with benevolence."

Idiom usage

To economize by oneself