What are the meanings of "hardworking" and "hardworking and thrifty"?

Diligence refers to hard work and efforts to produce material and spiritual wealth. Diligence is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation.

Diligence and thrift. The ancients said: "Thrift, virtue of **** also; luxury, the evil of the great also", "the history of the former sages country and home, into by hard work and thrift broken by luxury". Diligence and thrift is a traditional Chinese virtue, is the fine tradition of the Chinese nation. As small as a person, a family, as large as a country, the whole of mankind, to survive, to develop, are inseparable from the four words of diligence and thrift. It can be said that cultivation, family, governance are inseparable from thrift and frugality, Zhuge Liang "quiet to cultivate the body, thrift to cultivate virtue" as "cultivation" way; Zhu Zi will be "a porridge and a meal, when thinking about the hard-earned; half silk and half stranded, constant thought Zhu Zi will be "a porridge and a meal, when thinking about the hard work; half a thread and a half a wisp, always thinking about the material resources Weiqian" as the "family" of the admonition; Mao Zedong "practicing economy, thrift and hard work to build a country" for the "rule of the country" of the experience.