Break your moustache(niān duàn zī xū)

Break your moustache

Nianduan moustache, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ni à NDU à NZ à x à, which means to rub the moustache so frequently that several of them are broken. It is used to describe the mode of deliberation when writing poetry. From Nie Hai Hua

Notes on Idioms

Moustache: the moustache on the mouth.

The origin of Idioms

The 35th chapter of Zeng Pu's Nie Hai Hua: "because it's not easy to hear the tone of plucking a mustache in this study."

Idiom usage

As a predicate; used in thinking or writing

Chinese PinYin : niān duàn zī xū