a porridge and a meal is hard to come by; Half a silk and half a wisp, persistent thinking and material resources are only difficult.

This is a sentence in Zhu Zi's Family Instructions, and it's also a sentence I often say when my family is eating.

It means that for a porridge or a meal, we should think that it is hard-won; For half a silk or half a thread of clothes, we should always remember that it is very difficult to produce these materials.

Now we can not only eat and wear warm clothes, but also eat and wear warm clothes with quality. We should cherish what we have in front of us and be grateful for our present life.

When my mother was alive, she often said these words to me. She experienced starvation in 1961. At that time, she was short of food and clothing. She saw people starving to death, and she was always grateful for her present life. She was saddened to see waste.

I have always hated waste, which is also influenced by my mother's education.

so is my education for the next generation. Don't throw away the waste when the rice is not delicious, just keep eating and be full. Don't leave leftovers in the bowl where you eat, and pick up and eat the rice grains that fall on the table. I don't believe how unsanitary it is to get sick. Order less when you go to a restaurant, not enough to add food ...

It's difficult to change from frugality to extravagance. From Sima Guang's "Training frugality to show health", it means that it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

it is everyone's responsibility to put an end to waste. We should start from ourselves, promote the family and the people around us, so that everyone can develop the good habit of thrift and form a good social atmosphere.