箪食瓢飲たんしひょういん

noun

simple food and drink; frugal contentment

A rare yojijukugo from the Analects of Confucius. Literally 'a bamboo dish of rice and a gourd of drink', it describes a life of simple, unpretentious sustenance and contentment with poverty. Used in classical or literary contexts.

• 「箪たん食し瓢ひょう飲いん」は、論ろん語ごに由ゆ来らいする質しっ素そな生せい活かつを表あらわす故こ事じ成せい語ごだ。

  '箪食瓢飲' is a classical idiom from the Analects that describes a simple, frugal life.