What is the meaning of the ancient saying "poor death not plow the father-in-law's field, starve to death not into the turnip garden"?

The meaning is that the poor death can not go to rent the old man's field, because this Yang is equivalent to a liability, is despised, starvation is not into the radish garden, because the radish eat more on the body is not good; poor people can not be short of ambition, even if how to live in poverty, the rice can not afford to eat, but also can not go to someone else's home in the radish garden to steal the radish, to have their own backbone.

To the old man's family farming is equivalent to the man inverted door, the ancient door son-in-law is very difficult to be, to give up the original family name, and in the family does not have the status of a very embarrassing, is likely to not get the corresponding return; in the time to starve to death into someone else's radish garden, will be considered to go to steal the radish.

Expanded Information

I. The family name is the name of the man who goes to the woman's house to join the family, and the children take the mother's name. Originally a matrilineal family marriage system, which is a development from the wife residence, service marriage and other ancient marriage legacy. In the Qin and Han dynasties, the cumbersome form of "son-in-law service" nature. After the Song Dynasty, into the "redundant son-in-law complementary generation", "redundant son-in-law old age" nature, the woman's family has no male heir, son-in-law door to continue the ancestral ancestral halls, complementary labor, and support for the woman's family of the elderly.

Second, proverbs are similar to idioms, but colloquial, easy to understand, and generally express a complete meaning, the form is almost always one or two short sentences. Proverbs include an extremely wide range of content. Proverbs, like idioms, are part of the language as a whole and can add distinctiveness and vividness to the language. But proverbs and quotations are different; proverbs are the practical life experiences of working people, while quotations are the words of famous people.

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