Chinese

		not; no; (negative prefix)	eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed	the human world; the world of mortals	smoke and fire
trad. (不食人間煙火)		不	食	人間	煙火
simp. (不食人间烟火)		不	食	人间	烟火

Idiom

不食人間煙火

1. out of touch; no sense of the practical

   這一群不食人間煙火的人，根本不知道別人的實際痛苦！

   These people, who are out of touch with reality, just don't understand the real suffering of others!

2. other-worldly
   • 2005: 张雁 ed. (Zhang Yan), 没什么爱是不食人间烟火 (There's no such thing as other-worldly romantic love)

     可惜，這是個真實的世界，真實的世界裡有普通人，有擁擠和喧囂，有辛酸及無奈，唯獨沒有童話般的不食人間煙火的愛情。

     Unfortunately, this is the real world; the real world that contains normal people. The real world is crowded and noisy, and is filled with bitterness and compromise. Only there's no such thing as the other-worldly romantic love that you read about in fairy-tales.

3. to not eat anything