To make a mess of(pò nà shū gēng)

To make a mess of

Broken soup, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is p ò n à sh ū g ē ng, meaning broken clothes vegetarian, describes simple life. It comes from Shen De Fu of Ming Dynasty.

Idiom explanation

It's vegetarian in rags. To describe a simple life.

The origin of Idioms

In Shen De Fu's yehuo Bian · Li Bu · scholar bureaucrat's idiosyncrasy in Ming Dynasty, "in Jiajing period, Yang Yongxiu's clothes were very poor and clean; at the same time, Jingchuan in Tang Dynasty was very dirty."

Idiom usage

To break the soup as an object or attribute; used in daily life.

Analysis of Idioms

Antonym: luxury.

Chinese PinYin : pò nà shū gēng