1. One porridge and one meal for sweat.

2. Go out and walk to check the wind direction, dress and eat, and measure your belongings.

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

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

5. A simple diet, a steady flow of water.

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

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

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

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

10. Ten spoons make a bowl of rice.

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

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

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

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

15. Half-year grain of bran vegetables.

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

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

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

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

20. A porridge or a meal should be thought of as hard-won, and half a strand of persistent thoughts are hard to come by.

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

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

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