1. Stay calm to cultivate your character, and be frugal to cultivate your virtue.

Source: (Three Kingdoms Period) Zhuge Liang's "Book of Commandments".

Explanation: Rely on inner peace and concentration to cultivate body and mind, and rely on frugal style to cultivate moral character.

2. Looking at the virtuous countries and families in the past, success was achieved through diligence and frugality, and failure was caused by luxury.

Source: [Tang Dynasty] Li Shangyin's "Two Ode to History·Part 2"

Explanation: Looking at the past events of the previous dynasties, success comes from diligence and frugality, while luxury and waste will eventually lead to the destruction of the country. Death of the family.

3. It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

Source: [Northern Song Dynasty] Sima Guang's "Encouragement to Children"

Explanation: It is easy to move from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to move from luxury to frugality. ).

4. A porridge and a meal, remembering that the place has changed; half a thread, half a thread, always remembering the difficulty of material resources.

Source: Ming Dynasty Zhu Bailu's "Motto for Managing a Family"

Explanation: A bowl of porridge and rice should be remembered as hard-earned, and half a silk thread, always remember that it is difficult to weave. It means that food and clothing are hard-earned and should not be wasted.

Extended information:

1. Saving food is the obligation of each of our citizens, not that if your life is better, you can waste it if you can afford it. Waste is a shameful act. As long as you have a sense of thrift, it's actually very simple: eat as much as you can when eating, and don't throw away leftovers.

2. The results of the Fifth World Food Survey in 1986 were: 335-449 million people in 112 developing countries (excluding China and other socialist countries) were malnourished from 1979 to 1981.

3. The United Nations Population Fund claimed in the early 1980s that world cereal production could feed 6 billion people. But during the same period, the world's population was only about 4.5 billion, but 450 million people were hungry. In 1995, the world's population increased to 5.7 billion, and the number of hungry people increased to 1 billion.

4. In 1972, due to the global food harvest failure caused by two consecutive years of abnormal climate, coupled with the former Soviet Union's rush to buy grains, a world food crisis emerged. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1973 and 1974 In 2006, the first and second food conferences were held successively to draw the attention of the world, especially the third world, to food and agricultural production issues.

5. However, the problem has not been solved, and the world food situation has become more serious. According to predictions at the time, the world would still be in short supply of food in the 1980s. The resolution on World Food Day adopted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was made against the backdrop of the increasingly acute contradiction between world food supply and demand.

Reference materials:

Baidu Encyclopedia--Cherish Food