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

2. Plan carefully for half a year’s food.

3. One porridge and one meal for sweat.

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

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

6. The mouth is a bottomless pit. A big meal is better than a small gamble

7. Save money on meals, and save money on clothes every day.

8. Why do you need eight treasures and nine tripods when you have enough food? A seven-foot body can be used in thousands of households?

9. A porridge or a meal should be thought of as hard-won, and half a thread of constant thought is difficult to obtain.

10. The drizzle makes a river, and the grains of rice make a basket.

11. Eat and drink lavishly while looking after the present, and live frugally to survive the famine.

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

13. One or two coals, one piece of charcoal, a little can make a lot of cooked rice.

14. It’s noon on the day of hoeing, and the sweat is dripping from the soil. Who would have thought that every meal on the plate is hard work?

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

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

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

18. Use money when you have benefits, and use money when you have hardships.

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

20. If the water flows slowly, there will be no worries in case of disaster.

21. A grain of rice, a drop of sweat, a grain of grain and a drop of sweat.

22. Simple tea and light rice, but a steady flow of water.

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

24. 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.

25. It takes thousands of kilos of grain to earn a simple meal.

26. A good harvest should be celebrated in a lean year.

27. A grain of rice requires ninety-nine labors.

28. The family has thousands of stones of food, but the pile will not grow long.

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

30. Don’t forget the hardship of farmers when eating, and don’t forget the busyness of workers when dressing.

31. Save rice today, save oil tomorrow, and buy a big ox next year.

32. Even if you have a good harvest, you still need a simple meal.

33. Ten spoons make a bowl of rice.

34. When it comes to eating, it’s home-cooked meals, and when it comes to wearing coarse clothes.

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

36. The mouse still has three cents of food left. The head of the grain is not thrifty, and the tail of the grain is called rice.

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

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

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

40. No matter how much grain you have, you still need to prepare several pots of wild vegetables.

41. Rice bran is a half-year grain.

42. Save money on cigarettes and alcohol, and seek help in times of emergency.

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

44. Love clothes to keep you warm, love food to keep you full.

45. When eating, you should remember the kindness of cows and horses, and when wearing silk, you should remember the silkworm breeders.

46. I forget to shrink my hand when there is more left behind, but there is no way to look back.

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

48. A porridge and a meal, when you think about the difficulty of getting there; half a thread, half a thread, always think about the difficulty of material resources.

49. Who knows that every grain of food on the plate is hard work.

50. If the food is not good enough, it can satisfy the hunger; if the body is not good, it can be covered up.

51. If you are not a householder, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are.