To live in extreme poverty, wearing tattered and patched clothes like a quail's tail, yet maintaining one's integrity and contentment with a simple, unadorned life, often implying a refusal to compromise for material gain or official position.
尽管生活困顿，他依然保持着一颗读书人的清高，过着子夏悬鹑的日子，却乐在其中。
Despite the hardships of life, he maintained the noble integrity of a scholar, living a life of "Zixia's suspended quail," yet finding joy in it.
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