A grain of rice is a bundle of wages
It is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is l ì m ǐ sh ù x ī n, meaning that there is little food and firewood. It's from the second moment of surprise.
The idiom comes from Ling Mengchu of Ming Dynasty, Volume 24 of "two moment clapping a case in amazement": "a grain of rice is not enough for a salary, and the family is unprepared, but the wife is just complaining and crying."
A grain of rice is a bundle of wages
remedy defects and rectify errors - bǔ piān jiù bì
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grow up from the filthy mud without being polluted - chū chén bù rǎn
be as everlasting as the sun and the moon - rì yuè jīng tiān