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

Source: "Compassion for the Farmers Part 2"

Interpretation: The food on this plate was obtained with bits and pieces of hard work.

2. A porridge or a meal should be thought of as hard-won, and half a thread of constant thought is hard to come by.

Source: "Zhu Xi's Family Instructions"

Interpretation: When eating every bowl of porridge or every bowl of rice, you should think about how many people have contributed and how much energy has gone into the porridge and rice. Consumption is really hard-won; every half of the silk and every half of the thread that we need in life must always think about how much material energy and how many people's hard work it contains, and it should be cherished.

3. Cherish clothes and have clothes, cherish food and have food.

Source: Volume 3 of "Warning Words" by Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty

Interpretation: If you cherish clothes, you will have clothes to wear; if you cherish food, you will have food to eat.

4. There is no idle land in the world, and farmers are still starving to death.

Source: "Compassion for Farmers Part One"

Interpretation: There is no uncultivated field in the world, and the toiling farmers will still starve to death.

5. Every time I eat, I think about the difficulty of farming; every time I wear clothes, I think about the hard work of weaving.

Source: Tang Dynasty Wu Jing's "Zhenguan Politicians. The Eleventh Instructions for Princes and Kings"

Interpretation: Every time you take a bite of rice, you have to think of the hard work of growing crops. Every time you eat When it comes to clothes, you have to think about the hard work of weaving.