a thorn for a hairpin and plain cloth for a skirt

a thorn for a hairpin and plain cloth for a skirt

The Chinese idiom, CH ā ij ī ngq ú Nb ù, means that Jingzhi is a hairpin and coarse cloth is a skirt. It describes the simple dress of women. From the biography of women.

Analysis of Idioms

Jingchai cloth skirt

Idiom usage

Because Aunt Xue saw that Xing Xiuyan was born elegant and stable, and her family was poor, she was a daughter with a hairpin and a thin skirt, so she wanted to say that she was Xue Pan's wife. A dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty chapter 57

The origin of Idioms

Liu Xiang's biography of women in the Western Han Dynasty: "Liang Hong's wife Meng Guang, Jing Chai's cloth skirt."