with hair unshevelled and teeth incomplete
It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is p é NGT ó UL ì ch ǐ, which means disheveled hair and sparse teeth. It describes a person's aging appearance. It comes from the ode to lust of dengtuzi.
The origin of Idioms
Song Yu of Chu Dynasty in the Warring States period wrote: "his wife's hair is puffed, her ears are curled, her lips are full of teeth."
Idiom usage
It is used as predicate and attributive to describe a person's old state. example hair of a crane, skin of a chicken, head full of teeth. Yu Xin's Ode to bamboo stick in the Northern Zhou Dynasty
Idiom story
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu ordered Wang Ba, who abandoned his official position in the period of Wang Mang, to become an official again. Wang Ba refused to do so. He was a good friend of his county commander huzibo. Linghuzibo's son became a meritorious Cao and went to visit Wang ba. When Wang Ba saw that his son was engaged in farm work like him, he felt guilty and sorry for his son.
Chinese PinYin : péng tóu lì chǐ
with hair unshevelled and teeth incomplete
People die for money, birds die for food. rén wèi cái sǐ,niǎo wèi shí wáng
Money makes the devil go. yǒu qián néng shǐ guǐ tuī mò
advantageous to both public and private interest. gōng sī liǎng biàn
You can stand on your fist and walk on your arm. quán tóu shàng lìdé rén,gē bó shàng zǒudé lù