●If you want food and clothing, be diligent and thrifty

●Hold tightly, and you will have success every year

●Diligence can make up for weakness, and savings can make up for poverty

● Think before and after, always have enough food and clothing

●Be careful with your budget and keep your food and salt in order

●Those wearing tattered cloaks are often good drinkers (Spain)

●A harvest of ten thousand kilo of food requires a simple diet

●Those who can eat can eat a thousand meals, and those who cannot eat can only eat one meal

●Be careful with your budget and keep the oil and salt constantly

●Those who wear tattered cloaks are often good drinkers (Spain)

●Eat porridge and rice for sweat

●If you are not a rich man, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are

●Who loves fashion and high style, but pity the times when they are frugal in dressing up

●The finished things cannot be damaged

Quietness is used to cultivate one's morality, and frugality is used to cultivate virtue - Zhuge Liang's "Book of Commandments" .

1. A gentleman uses frugality to overcome difficulties.

General idea: A gentleman uses the virtue of frugality to avoid danger.

2. Be diligent in your country and frugal in your family.

The general idea: Be diligent in national affairs and frugal in family life.

3. Frugality is the greatest virtue; extravagance is the greatest evil.

The general idea: Frugality is the greatest virtue among good deeds; luxury is the greatest evil among evil deeds.

4. People’s livelihood depends on diligence, but diligence means nothing.

General idea: The livelihood of ordinary people depends on hard work. Only by working hard can there be no shortage of property.

5. Frugality leads to prosperity, while immorality leads to ruin.

The general idea: Frugality will lead to prosperity, while lustful enjoyment will lead to ruin.

6. It’s noon on the day of hoeing, and the sweat is dripping from the soil.

Who knows that every meal on the plate is hard work.

The general idea: The farmer was hoeing under the scorching sun at noon, and drops of sweat fell on the soil where the seedlings grew. Who knew that every grain of food on the plate was obtained with such hard work.

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

The main idea: Throughout history, whether it’s a country or a family, everything thrives on diligence and frugality and perishes on extravagance.

8. Worry and labor can rejuvenate a country, while leisure can destroy one's life.

The general idea: Worrying about state affairs can make the country prosperous and prosperous, while pursuing ease and enjoyment can lead to one's own destruction.

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

The general idea: It is easy to change from frugality to luxury, but it is very difficult to change from luxury to frugality.

10. Take it in moderation and use it in moderation, and you will always have enough.

General idea: If you ask for things in a planned way and consume in a controlled way, you will always be rich.

11. Only frugality can help integrity, but forgiveness can become a virtue.

The main idea: Only frugality can make people honest and honest, and only tolerance can make people develop good moral character.

12. A porridge and a meal, when you think about where you came from, it is not easy;

Half a thread, half a thread, always think about the difficulty of material resources.

The general idea: Even if it is a porridge or a meal, you should remember that it is not easy to come by; even if it is half a piece of silk or half a thread, you should also think of the hard work.