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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「簞食瓢飲」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

A bowl of food and a jug of drink. Describes scholars who are content with a poor and noble life.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dān shí piáo yǐn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

daan1 sik6 piu4 yam2

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