poverty stifles ambition

poverty stifles ambition

Ma shoumao Chang, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin m ǎ sh ò um á och á ng, means that people are poor and have short ambitions. It comes from "five Lantern Festival, Yuan Dynasty, five ancestors' Dharma Chan Master".

The origin of Idioms

Shi Puji of the Song Dynasty wrote in the book "five lanterns meeting, Yuan Dynasty, the fifth patriarch's Dharma Chan Master": "ask the ancestral meaning, teach the meaning, is the same or different, the teacher said that people are poor and short, the horse is thin and long."

Idiom usage

It refers to people who are in poverty and will be in low spirits. example a poor man with short ambition and a thin horse. He has a long, thin look.