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
A tiger in the front door, a wolf in the back - qián mén jù hǔ,hòu mén jìn láng
length of land on small picture - chǐ shān cùn shuǐ
feel like old friends at the first meeting - yī miàn rú jiù
sit idle and enjoy the fruits of others ' work - zuò xiǎng qí gōng