1. If you are diligent and frugal, your granary will be full of food, but if you are extravagant, your granary will be bare.

2. There are thousands of hectares of fertile land, and one liter of solar eclipse. There are thousands of rooms in the mansion, and seven feet of sleeping space at night.

3. If you are not a householder, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are.

4. A pound of food is worth a thousand grains of sweat. Eat frugally and plan carefully.

5. Store a spoonful of rice a day, and a stone of grain for a thousand days.

6. Even if you have to harvest tens of thousands of kilo of grain, you still have to have a simple meal.

7. No matter how much grain you have, you still need to prepare several pots of wild vegetables.

8. Coarse food can help you grow old; coarse cotton-padded clothes can help you grow old.

9. A porridge and a meal are exchanged for beads of sweat.

10. Who knows that every grain of food on the plate is hard work.

11. The mouse still has three cents of food left. The head of the grain is not thrifty, and the tail of the grain is called rice.

12. A grain of rice, a drop of sweat, a grain of grain and a drop of sweat.

13. A good harvest requires a thousand stones, but a simple meal.

14. Don’t forget the hardship of farmers when eating, and don’t forget the busyness of workers when dressing.

15. Cherish clothes and have clothes, cherish food and have food.

16. Save money on cigarettes and alcohol, and ask for help in times of emergency.

17. Use money when you have benefits, and use money when you have hardships.

18. The mouth is a bottomless pit. A big meal is better than a small gamble

19. When you go out and walk, check the direction of the wind, dress and eat, and measure your belongings.

20. Ten spoons make a bowl of rice.

21. Eat and drink lavishly while looking after the present, and live frugally to survive the famine.

22. When eating, you should remember the kindness of cows and horses, and when wearing silk, you should remember the silkworm breeders.

23. Rice bran is a half-year grain.

24. A porridge and a meal, when you think about the difficulty of getting there; half a thread, half a thread, always think about the difficulty of material resources.

25. The family has thousands of stones of food, but the pile will not grow long.

26. Why do you need eight treasures and nine tripods when you have enough food? A seven-foot body can be used in thousands of households?

27. It takes three years of rotten rice to build a tall building, and three years of gruel to buy a cow.

28. Who loves fashion and high style, but pity the frugal dressing up of the times.

29. Love clothes to keep you warm, love food to keep you full.

30. A grain of rice requires ninety-nine labors.

31. Save money on meals, save money on clothes every day.

32. Save money when there is a shortage, and save when there is a shortage.

33. I forget to shrink my hand when there is more left behind, but there is no way to look back.

34. It’s noon on the day of hoeing, and the sweat is dripping from the soil. Who would have thought that every meal on the plate is hard work?

35. The drizzle turns into a river, and the grains of rice make up a basket.

36. A porridge or a meal should be thought of as hard-won, and half a strand of constant thought is hard to come by.

37. If you cherish your clothes, you will have clothes to wear; if you cherish your food, you will have food to eat.

38. Plan carefully for half a year’s food.

39. When food is put into warehouses, don’t forget disasters and famines.

40. A good harvest should be celebrated in a lean year.

41. Gold has no seeds, it comes from thrifty families.

42. One or two coals, one piece of charcoal, a little can make a lot of cooked rice.

43. Simple tea and light rice, but a steady flow of water.

44. There is storage every year, and there will be no shortage of people in famine years.

45. The family has ten thousand burdens, but they don’t take off to mend their clothes and don’t throw away the leftovers.

46. When it comes to eating, it’s home-cooked meals, and when it comes to wearing coarse clothes.

47. If the water flows slowly, there will be no worries in case of disaster.

48. Save rice today, save oil tomorrow, and buy a big ox next year.

49. If the food is not good enough, it can satisfy the hunger; if the body is not rich, it can be covered.

50. Save a mouthful when you are full, and get a bucket when you are hungry.

51. If you plan carefully for half a year, you will not suffer in bad years.