have only bare necessities at home

have only bare necessities at home

In Chinese, Pinyin is sh ē NW ú ch á NGW ù, which means that there is nothing extra except itself. It's from a new account of the world: moral conduct.

The origin of Idioms

Liu Yiqing of the Southern Dynasty, Song Dynasty, wrote in a new account of the world: moral conduct: "the father-in-law doesn't know Gong, but he has no talent to be respectful."

Idiom usage

What kind of person is Wang Gong? What kind of person is Wang Gong? What kind of person is Wang Gong? What kind of person is Wang Gong. Describe poverty. Although these refugees were, they met with the coldness they had never seen in decades when they arrived in Huiyang. Wang Gong said to him, "my father-in-law doesn't know about Gong. Gong has no talent for being a man." That is to say, Wang Gong claims to be poor, which shows his simplicity.

Analysis of Idioms

Family is empty and empty

Idiom story

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a man named Wang Gong who was a general, a senior official, and a teacher of the prince. However, his family is not very rich and his life is quite simple. Once, Wang Gong followed his father to Kuaiji (today's Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province), where bamboo is abundant, so when he returned to Jiankang (today's Nanjing, Jiangsu Province), he brought a beautiful bamboo mat. After returning to Jiankang, a friend named Wang Chen went to see him. When Wang Chen saw that the bamboo mat he was sitting on was comfortable and beautiful, he liked it very much. He said to Wang Gong, "you must have brought a lot of such a good mat when you come back from a place rich in bamboo. Can you give me a collar?" Wang Gong said with a smile. After Wang Chen left, Wang Gong asked people to send the bamboo mat to Wang Chen. Because the only bamboo mat had been given to Wang Chen, Wang Gong had to sit on a straw mat for reading and eating. When Wang Chen knew this, he was very surprised. He found Wang Gong and said to him with great regret: I thought you had several such seats, so I asked you for them. I didn't expect you had only one. Wang Gong said with a smile: it seems that you don't know me very well. I've never had anything extra in my life.