White hair and beautiful face

marry a woman many years younger than oneself

The Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B á if à h ó ngy á n, which means white hair and ruddy face. It describes the healthy and radiant appearance of the elderly. It comes from Xuanhe Huapu Daoshi 4.

The origin of Idioms

The anonymous book Xuanhe Huapu · Daoshi 4 of Song Dynasty says: "I have a chronic disease in the past, and I can practice it when I meet a stranger. But I thank the doctor for the medicine, and even lead the new year. I have white hair and beautiful face. I really get something."

Analysis of Idioms

White hair and beautiful face

Idiom usage

Combined; as subject and attribute; with commendatory meaning, to describe the appearance of the elderly. The second fold of Ming Dynasty's Wumingshi's fishing and woodcutter's gossip: "green clothes and yellow clothes are used upside down, white hair and pretty face are happy and angry to see." Lu Yao's ordinary world, Vol.1, Chapter 21: "like most traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, Mr. Gu wears a pair of presbyopic glasses and gives a pulse to Tian Futang seriously." In the first chapter of the romance of the Qing Dynasty, Cai Dongfan said, "all of a sudden, there are a lot of friends and good guests. Among them is a white haired father-in-law who says to his master," what a little gentleman, I was robbed by your family as my son-in-law. "