Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「卑宮菲食」—details below.
Introducing the Chinese idiom 「卑宮菲食」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
It refers to the simple palace and poor food. In the old days, it was used to praise the imperial court’s virtue of frugality.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bēi gōng fēi shí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bei1 gung1 fei2/fei1 sik6
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