extreme poverty

extreme poverty

Cooking with a few rice, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ǔ m ǐ é rchu ī, which means to over care about small profits. From Chuang Tzu · Geng sangchu.

Analysis of Idioms

A few meters measure wood

The origin of Idioms

Chuang Tzu · gengsang Chu: "simple hair and comb, rice and cooking."

Idiom usage

Chen Ruyuan's book "the story of the Golden Lotus - burning coupons" in Ming Dynasty: "the old lack of space, empty self-supporting children; hunger difficult ~, shame no accumulation of grain." It's a waste of time and no good for you to cook with rice.

Idioms and allusions

In the Tang Dynasty, Wei Zhuang, a famous poet, was born in a poor family and lived a simple life after he became famous. He often counts rice grains to cook and weighs firewood to make a fire. He is often ridiculed. Such frugality has reached a despicable level.