make up one 's face heavily and dress gaudily(nóng zhuāng yàn fú)

make up one 's face heavily and dress gaudily

Heavy make-up, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is n ó ngzhu à ngy à NF ú, which means women's heavy and gorgeous make-up. Same as "heavy makeup". From the romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties.

The origin of Idioms

In the Qing Dynasty, Chu people won the 35th chapter of the romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties: "all the people in the palace were dressed up and rode on horseback, with a cluster of Qi Luo and a thousand lines of silk and bamboo, straight from the Da Nei to the Xiyuan."

Analysis of Idioms

Heavy make up

Idiom usage

As predicate, attribute, object; used of women

Chinese PinYin : nóng zhuāng yàn fú