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The meaning of thrift
1, frugality means thrift and describes diligence and thrift; It can also mean scrimping and saving.

2. Diligence and thrift comes from the first chapter of Volume V of Lu Yao's Ordinary World: "From this, we have formed a dual lifestyle of not only daring to eat and drink, but also being frugal."

3. Famous sayings and aphorisms related to thrift:

Whoever scrimps and saves on weekdays will easily tide over the difficulties when he is poor; People who are extravagant in abundance will die of hunger and cold in poverty. Sadie

Thrift is an inexhaustible feast in your life. Edison

Being poor and white and living a simple life is exactly where we revolutionaries can overcome many difficulties! -Fang Zhimin

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Short story of thrift:

1, Zhu Yuanzhang with four dishes and one soup

In Fengyang, Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown, there is also a song of four dishes and one soup: the emperor treats you, four dishes and one soup, radish and leek, which is really sweet; Onion tofu, profound and clear, makes corrupt officials flustered. When Zhu Yuanzhang celebrated the queen's birthday, he only used two bowls of carrots, leeks, vegetables and spring onion tofu soup to entertain the officials. Moreover, there are three chapters in the Covenant: in the future, no matter who hosts a banquet, only four dishes and one soup are allowed, and anyone who violates it will pay in hell.

2. Diligent and thrifty Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong asked others to do it first. He lived a simple life, slept in a hard bed and wore coarse clothes. A nightgown was mended 73 times and worn for 20 years. During the difficult economic times, he took the initiative to reduce his salary and living standard, and did not eat fish or fruit.

In the 1960s, once after a meeting before noon, he left everyone for lunch. At the dinner table, he cooked cabbage with a big bowl of meatballs and a few small dishes of pickles, and the staple food was sesame cake. Great men set an example of thrift for China people.

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