This sentence comes from Huang Tingjian's Preface to Poems of Four Rest Tutors in Song Dynasty. Simple tea and simple rice mean simple and simple life, expressing the author's satisfied and casual attitude towards life.
Huang Tingjian was a famous writer and calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty. His literary attainments are quite high, and his calligraphy achievements are unique. He, Du Fu, Chen are also called "three schools of one ancestor". He studied under Su Shi, and was also called "Four Bachelor of Su Men" with, Chao and Qin Guan. Later, he was as famous as Su Shi and was known as the "Su Huang" in the world. Huang Tingjian's poems are mainly about singing about the life in the study. His creative ideas are traceable, and he is eloquent and eager to learn. He constructed and put forward poetic theories such as "turning iron into gold" and "robbing fetus into bone", which gradually became the creative principle and theoretical basis of Jiangxi poetry school, with great artistic characteristics in Song Dynasty and far-reaching influence on later generations. Su Shi once commented that his "magnificent prose is a wonderful work in the contemporary world; A trip to filial piety, chasing the ancients. "