人吃五谷生百病人吃五穀生百病人吃五穀生百病

people eat the five grains and get a hundred illnesses

Saying俗语俗語

Proverb谚语諺語 · In everyday use

Meaning: Everyone lives on ordinary food and so inevitably falls ill sometimes. Said to accept illness as natural.

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Simplified: 人吃五谷生百病
Traditional (Taiwan): 人吃五穀生百病
Pinyin: rén chī wǔgǔ shēng bǎibìng
Bopomofo: ㄖㄣˊ ㄔㄨˇ ㄍㄨˇ ㄕㄥㄅㄞˇ ㄅㄧㄥˋ

Written with HSK 4 vocabulary, at CEFR level B1.

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