A pot of wine and a bag of rice

A pot of wine and a bag of rice

The Chinese idiom, Ji à w è NGF à NN á ng in pinyin, means "jiunanbao". It comes from baopuzi Tanni.

The origin of Idioms

Jin Gehong's baopuzi Tanyou: "Xun Yu is still strong enough to talk with others. In the past, all of them were wooden stems and mud puppets, like human beings but not popular. They were all wine pots and rice bags."

Idiom usage

As an object or attribute, it refers to the incompetent. Example Lu You's poem "jieji" in Song Dynasty: "don't make a fool of yourself in a wine jar or a rice bag. It's better to be full of idle worries."