(idiom) Lit. not looking back at a shattered pot; implies that once something is done and cannot be changed, there is no use in regretting it.

A glass vessel used in chemistry for distillation or decomposition of substances, shaped like a pear with a long neck curved to one side

Dust in the steamer and fish in the pot; describes living in extreme poverty where one has been unable to cook for a long time. This idiom references the story of Fan Ran in the "Book of the Later Han", whose kitchenware was so neglected that dust collected in the [[甑|甑|zeng4]] and silverfish grew in the [[釜|釜|fu3]].

Used to describe a state of extreme poverty; literally a broken cooking pot that has sat unused so long that dust has settled inside it.