Idioms describing China's food culture

Land of fish and rice: refers to the land of fish and rice.

Land of Fish and Rice: See "Land of Fish and Rice".

Cooking without rice: cooking: cooking. Metaphor is something that can't be done without necessary conditions.

Bend over five buckets of rice: [explanation] Five buckets of rice: the salary of the county magistrate in the Jin Dynasty, later referring to the meager salary; Bow down: Bow down to salute others. Bow and salute for the meager salary. Metaphor has no backbone.

Stealing chickens and not eating rice: a proverb. Instead of stealing chickens, it lost a handful of rice. Metaphor takes advantage, but suffers.

Taicang Zaomi: Taicang: a big barn located in the capital in ancient times. The metaphor is very small.

Metaphor gradually erodes everything.

Nothing to do with the other party: it means that you have not eaten other people's food. It is a metaphor for being an honest official and not taking things from the people. It also means that there is no contact between the two sides.

Water has nothing to do with rice: see "Water has nothing to do with rice".

Counting meters and measuring firewood: metaphor is too trivial. It also describes the embarrassment of life.