have little food to eat
The Chinese idiom, sh í B ù ch ō NGK ǒ u in pinyin, means that you can't have enough to eat. It describes the hardships of life. From Zhao Li rang Fei by Qin Jianfu of Yuan Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
The first discount of Zhao Li rang Fei written by Qin Jianfu in Yuan Dynasty: "brother, I don't have enough clothes to cover my body, food to eat, and I'm not poor enough to kill me!
Analysis of Idioms
Food can't make a living
Idiom usage
Ling Mengchu, Ming Dynasty, Volume 35 of his book "the first time to make a surprise on a desk": "it's really hard to cover your body with clothes and food. If you get up early, you won't get late."
have little food to eat
be frightened out of one 's wits - jīng hún duó pò
Depend on the mountain to eat the mountain, depend on the water to eat the water - kào shān chī shān,kào shuǐ chī shuǐ
I don't know if there is a Han Dynasty, what about the Wei and Jin Dynasties - bù zhī yǒu hàn,hé lùn wèi jìn