Ten rice nine chaff
Ten meters nine chaff, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh í m ǐ Ji ǔ K ā ng, meaning to describe poverty. It comes from Guan Hanqing's saving the wind and dust in Yuan Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
The third part of Yuan Dynasty Guan Hanqing's "save the wind and dust" is: "I'm struggling to find out why two wives and three wives have suffered a lot."
Idiom usage
As an object, attribute, etc
Ten rice nine chaff
carry forward the cause pioneered by one 's predecessors and forge ahead into the future - jì wǎng kāi lái
eat chaff and herbs for half the year - kāng cài bàn nián liáng