{"id":4498,"date":"2019-11-19T22:19:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T22:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-phrases\/qiao-fu-nan-wei-wu-mi-zhi-chui-qiao3fu4nan2wei2wu2mi3zhi1chui1\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T22:19:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T22:19:19","slug":"qiao-fu-nan-wei-wu-mi-zhi-chui-qiao3fu4nan2wei2wu2mi3zhi1chui1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/qiao-fu-nan-wei-wu-mi-zhi-chui-qiao3fu4nan2wei2wu2mi3zhi1chui1\/","title":{"rendered":"\u5de7\u5987\u96be\u4e3a\u65e0\u7c73\u4e4b\u708a \u2013 qiao3fu4nan2wei2wu2mi3zhi1chui1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Literal translation &ndash; skilled wife difficult to without rice make good meal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even the most skilled of wives\/women is unable to make a good meal without rice<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This Chinese Proverb is used to describe  situations wher the materials given are not sufficient for the job.&nbsp;  It means you cannot blame the person for the result or outcome when it  was impossible to have a good outcome regardless of who handled the  task.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even the best cook in the world can&rsquo;t  make dinner if he doesn&rsquo;t have any food.&nbsp; If the quality of the food is  inferior the taste will be too.&nbsp; One cannot build a decent house without  the right materials and one cannot do their job well if the boss is too  cheap to buy decent tools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think you can use your imagination as  to when and how to use this proverb as it pretty much speaks for  itself.&nbsp; However it does give us a glimpse into the Chinese culture and  how rice is such an im<em><\/em>portant part of their culture.&nbsp; I would think  &ldquo;rice&rdquo; is likely used in many idioms and proverbs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2947307648\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literal translation &ndash; skilled wife difficult to without rice make good meal.Even the most skilled of wives\/women is unable to make a good meal without rice<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2834,34],"tags":[44,118,138],"class_list":["post-4498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-allegories","category-chinese-phrases","tag-chinese-culture","tag-culture","tag-the-chinese-culture"],"views":169,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}