Because people are like iron and rice is like steel. If you don’t eat one meal, you will feel hungry.

This sentence uses metaphors and contrasts to compare people to iron and rice to steel; it emphasizes the importance of food to the human body, reminding people to eat on time, to ensure quality and quantity, and not to be hungry after one meal. Meal and irregular eating will affect your health.

Precisely because steel is more expensive than iron and is a refined product of iron, it can be seen that people attach great importance to rice. Another reason why this saying is said is that it is easy to understand, and the rhymes of "steel" and "panic" overlap in the phonetics. It is official that its creator mastered these two tricks, and it became widely spread among the people.

Similar words: Food is the first necessity for the people

Food is the first necessity for the people, the pinyin is mín yǐ shí wéi tiān, which means that the people regard food as their first priority in life.

Food: food, something to eat. It also refers to food and implies the production resources required to operate food.

Sky: Sky, God. A metaphor for the most important thing to survive.

From the Western Han Dynasty historian Sima Qian's "Historical Records: Biography of Li Sheng and Lu Jia": The king regards the people as his heaven, and the people regard food as their heaven.

Explanation: The king values ??the people, and the people value food.