1. It’s noon on the day of hoeing, and the sweat is dripping from the soil. 2. Store one spoon of rice a day, and one stone of grain for a thousand days. 3. Who knows that every meal on the plate is hard work. 4. The drizzle falls into a river, and the grains of rice make up a basket. 5. If you cherish your clothes, you will have clothes to wear; if you cherish your food, you will have food to eat. 6. Gold has no seeds, it comes from thrifty families. 7. If the water flows slowly, there will be no worries in case of disaster. 8. Save a mouthful when you are full, and get a bucket when you are hungry. 9. Cherish clothes and have clothes, cherish food and have food. 10. One porridge and one meal are exchanged for beads of sweat.

Famous aphorisms about saving food

1. If the family has tens of thousands of loads, they will not take off their clothes to mend their clothes or throw away the leftovers.

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. The mouth is a bottomless pit, and eating big is better than gambling.

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. Half-year grain of rice bran.