分灶吃饭

Traditional form:

分竈吃飯

Pinyin (reading):

fēnzàochīfàn

Definitions:

• "meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC

Characters:

• 分 - to divide, to allocate; fraction; small unit of time or other quantity
• 灶 - kitchen, oven, stove
• 吃 - to eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear
• 饭 - meal, food; cooked rice

Traditional characters:

• 分 - to divide, to allocate; fraction; small unit of time or other quantity
• 竈 - furnace; kitchen stove
• 吃 - to eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear
• 飯 - meal, food; cooked rice