Age of dog and horse(quǎn mǎ zhī nián)

Age of dog and horse

The year of dog and horse is a Chinese idiom. The Pinyin is Qu ǎ nm ǎ zh ī Ni á n, which means to call one's age superior or inferior. From the order of the sixth year of the Yellow River.

The origin of Idioms

The order of the sixth year of Huangchu written by Wei Cao Zhi of the Three Kingdoms states: "it is impossible to study the age of a lone dog and horse with the kindness of your majesty."

Idiom usage

Used as an object; used in modesty. An old daughter-in-law is five years old at seventy. A ghost in Xishan cave

Chinese PinYin : quǎn mǎ zhī nián