Do it yourself
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ē nzu ò sh ē nd ā ng, which means doing things by yourself. It's from falling mulberry. Liu Tangqing's the first fold of "falling mulberry" in Yuan Dynasty: "brother, I'm a villain. How dare I bring you trouble."
Do it yourself
eat vegetarian food before the Buddha - cháng zhāi xiù fó
the wells are dry and the fences are dilapidated - duàn jǐng tuí yuán