have only bare necessities at home
In Chinese, Pinyin is sh ē NW ú ch á ngch ù, which means there is nothing more than one body. It used to mean living frugally. Poverty is now described. It's from a new saying of the world - moral conduct written by Liu Yiqing of the Southern Song Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
Liu Yiqing of the Southern Song Dynasty wrote "a new account of the world · moral conduct": "(Wang Gong) said to each other:" the father-in-law does not know Gong, and Gong has no talent to be a man. "
have only bare necessities at home
hire personnel on the basis of their abilities - liàng cái lù yòng
bring disaster to the fish in the moat - yāng jí chí yú
Cast the new and wash out the old - zhù xīn táo jiù
Against arrogance and against fullness - fǎn jiāo pò mǎn
disreputable quarters of the city - sān wǎ liǎng xiàng