poor yet not losing one's righteousness
Poverty is not lost, idiom, Pinyin is Qi ó NGB ù sh ī y ì, meaning that although poor, but not lost etiquette. It's from Mencius with all his heart.
The origin of Idioms
"Mencius heart up" said: "so the poor scholars do not lose their righteousness, can not be separated from the road
Idiom usage
It means that people have backbone
poor yet not losing one's righteousness
excelling and deep ---- to be transcendent without trace - chāo chāo xuán zhù
The wind is clear and the moon is white - fēng qīng yuè bái
contention of a hundred schools of thought - bǎi jiā zhēng míng
receive soldiers with baskets of rice and vessels of congee - dān sì hú jiāng