coarse clothes and simple fare

coarse clothes and simple fare

Brown clothes and vegetables, pronounced h è y ī sh ū sh í, is a Chinese idiom, which basically means to wear coarse clothes and eat coarse food. Describe the hardship of life. It comes from the biography of Rangers in historical records.

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Brown clothes: coarse cloth clothes; vegetable food: coarse food. He wore coarse clothes and ate plain food. Describe the hardship of life.

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In Sima Qian's biography of Rangers in historical records of the Western Han Dynasty, it is said that "So Ji Ci and Yuan Xian are empty all the year round, and they live in brown clothes and vegetables."