Food for the people

Food for the people

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is sh í w é im í NTI ā n, which means that food is the most important thing for people to live on. It comes from the family precepts of Yan family.

The origin of Idioms

According to Yan Zhitui's family precepts concerning affairs in the Northern Qi Dynasty, "food is for the people, and the people can't live without food. They can't live with each other for three days."

Analysis of Idioms

Food is the essence of the people

Idiom usage

In Feng Guifen's preface to the protest at xiaoyinglu in Qing Dynasty, "food is the God of the people, food is the people."