white hair and wrinkled skin-aged(hè fà jī pí)

white hair and wrinkled skin-aged

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is h è f ā J ī P í, which means wrinkled skin and pale hair. It describes the old man's aging appearance. It comes from the ode to bamboo stick.

Notes on Idioms

Crane hair: white hair; chicken skin: wrinkled skin.

The origin of Idioms

Yu Xin's Ode to bamboo stick in the Northern Zhou Dynasty: "my son is old, he has hair of a crane, chicken skin, and a head full of teeth."

Idiom usage

In the song of puppets written by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, "carved wood and silk as the old man, chicken skin and crane hair are the same as the true."

Chinese PinYin : hè fà jī pí