make oneself up and go on the stage(fěn mò dēng chǎng)

make oneself up and go on the stage

It's a Chinese idiom. Its pronunciation is f ě nm ò D ē ngch ǎ ng. It originally refers to the actor's dressing up to perform on stage. This is a metaphor for the bad guys to get on the political stage after dressing up. From the preface to the selection of Yuanqu.

The origin of Idioms

Zang maoxun's "preface to the selection of Yuanqu": Guan Hanqing's generation came to bow and practice, while Fu Fenmo's generation came to bow and practice. "

Idiom usage

In Liang Shaoren's essays on two kinds of autumn rain in Qing Dynasty, essays of QingQin Hall: "it's expensive to make a comeback. It's the trouble of making noise, but it's the lack of comfort. " "A long time has been a village competition, and life has also come to the stage. With a singing voice, all the actors will bow to the wind, and the audience will call for a unique tune." Zhang Dai, Ming Dynasty, wrote in the article of offering sacrifices to Yiling: "when you were alive, Fu Fen appeared on the stage, your eyes were wide open, your tongue was wide open, and you liked to laugh at ghosts. The audience was absolutely stunned, and the audience was spewing food." This article was written by Zhang Dai, a Ming Dynasty writer, for a dead dramatist named Xia Rukai in his friend's family. By the time of the fall of Peiping, these local ruffians had no qualifications and skills, and Japan was not prepared to send many officials to give orders immediately. (Lao She's four generations in the same hall 7)

Chinese PinYin : fěn mò dēng chǎng