A hundred quail knots(xuán chún bǎi jié)

A hundred quail knots

Danggui Baijie [interpretation] the feathers of quail are short and flowery, because Danggui is compared with ragged clothes. It's a lot of rags and patches.

[source] in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yu Xin's "quasi Lianzhu", it is said that "Gai Wen has a hundred knots hanging on a quail, and he knows his life well."

brief introduction

[interpretation] the feathers of quail are short and flowery, because hanging quail is compared with ragged clothes. It's a lot of rags and patches.

[source] in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yu Xin's "quasi Lianzhu", it is said that "Gai Wen has a hundred knots hanging on a quail, and he knows his life well."

[example] ~, on the road of stooping. Pu Songling's strange tales from a lonely studio Zhang Cheng in Qing Dynasty

Grammar: subject predicate; predicate, attribute; derogatory; poverty.

words whose meaning is similar

be in rags

English translation

beoutatelbows

Idiom information

Explanation of idiom: the feather of quail is short and flowery, because hanging quail means ragged clothes. It's a lot of mending.

Examples of idioms: Pu Songling's strange tales from a lonely studio Zhang Cheng in the Qing Dynasty: "a hundred quails hang in knots, and they are bent on the road."

Degree of common use: common use

Emotional color: derogatory words

Grammatical usage: used as predicate and attribute; with derogatory meaning

Idiom structure: subject predicate

Time of birth: ancient times

Chinese PinYin : xuán chún bǎi jié