grey hair and old face(cāng yán bái fà)

grey hair and old face

White face, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is C à ngy á Nb á if à, which means old face and white hair. From the story of the drunken man Pavilion.

The origin of Idioms

Ouyang Xiu of Song Dynasty wrote in the story of the drunken man's Pavilion: "if you are pale and dispirited, you will get drunk."

Idiom usage

In the third chapter of the chronicles of the states of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, there is a prince sitting in the middle, with a golden robe and white hair. He is a fairy

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: white haired; antonym: Green sideburns

Chinese PinYin : cāng yán bái fà