A popular chinese saying on the farmer's effort

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As the popular chinese verse goes, "Who will have known that each grain in your dish is a fruit of the farmer's hard labor?"

This famous saying is commonly used by Chinese parents (including mine) to inculcate in their kids the importance of finishing up every bit of your meal so as not to waste food. They will also use the opportunity to tell kids to not be fussy on what is served to them. The older generation will especially appreciate this since food was scarce and not easy to come by during their era.

This virtue is seemingly much lost in today's developed nations due to globalisation. With extended supply chains and more food sources, the current generation may slowly forget the sweat and hardship put forth by our forefathers and governments to ensure continual availability of food supply within the country.

Let's hope that it does not take a crisis for the current population to treasure and reduce food wastage.🙂

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Thank you for sharing this popular Chinese verse, which invites us to be more conscious and grateful for food.

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What a great idiom that is! I was raised to eat everything (no way to leave food on the plate or refuse). Not because of the farmer's hard labor but the lack of food in Biafra.
More and more farmers give up on farming and if not governments take their land.
Who will feed all those people if there are no longer farmers to do the labor? It's possible to go back 40-50 years and be satisfied with what we have. Greetings @wakeupkitty

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Thank you for the sharing, which reinforces the fact the middle age/ older generation will treasure food more than the new age group. Cheers and have a good day ahead buddy!

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Hello @cravis. I didn't know the saying, and when I read it, I didn't immediately see the moral to it. Thanks so much for explaining it. We also faced the same situation in the U.S. when I was a child. Not enough resources. Our parents would tell us about children in other countries who had less than we did, so we should be thankful for anything we get and not waste it.

I appreciate you sharing this article with good information. Take care.

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Chinese amazes me with its difficulty in learning. Though I've heard that in any language, it's important to understand its structure, and then there won't be any problems. But still, the nuances in pronunciation, intonation... It's very difficult.

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Same here about learning Chinese, but it seems that it's gradually becoming a necessity for me. Lots of interesting projects and work relevant to me require at least a basic level of Chinese. From time to time, I read various articles and reference materials just to know how to say thank you in chinese and not look foolish. But I suppose to study it properly, I'll need to find a good tutor with a lot of experience, preferably a native speaker.

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