What is the stem of "I can't eat four dishes in my life" and where did it come from?

The origin of "I can't eat four dishes in my life" is in the northeast. If one person says to another, "I can't eat four dishes in my life", it shows that the former looks down on the latter and expresses the former's irony and sarcasm to the latter.

The "four dishes" mentioned here are not four dishes on the table, but refer to a person's ability and career achievements.

In our northern region, especially in the northeast, people there are very unrestrained. People who are unrestrained are also particularly proud, especially when eating.

In the old society, the standard to judge whether a family is doing well is not to see how well their family speaks, but to brag at most. The real measure of a family's life is its food.

People who have no money are not particularly particular about eating, because they are poor and have no purchasing power. The situation of former families is just the opposite of that of poor families. They are well-off and relatively rich, so they have strong purchasing power, so they are particularly particular about eating.

In the northeast, the standard meal is to put four dishes on the table to measure the wealth of this family. However, because the poor families have a hard time and have no money to meet the standard of four dishes, such families are particularly shabby. And rich people have the ability to buy, naturally eat four dishes at a time. Over time, four courses have become the standard for judging the poor and the rich.

When a person looks down on another person, he will sneer at another person, and this sentence may be mentioned in ridicule: "You can't eat four dishes in this life", which means that the former satirizes and mocks the latter.

However, Bian Xiao believes that people should live in harmony. Even if there are contradictions between them, try not to hurt each other with such mean words. As the saying goes, "you can't be poor for three generations." No one will be poor all his life. If you laugh at others today, maybe one day they will live better than you, and vice versa.