Crane bone frost beard
Thin bone and white beard. Old age.
Idioms and allusions
It is originated from Su Shi's poem "to the old man in the mountains": "the heart of the crane's bone frost beard has been ashes, and the hands of the pine trees are planted by themselves."
Discrimination of words
Used as an object or attribute; used of the elderly
Crane bone frost beard
Don't stoop for five bushels of rice - bù wèi wǔ dǒu mǐ zhé yāo
extraordinary as if done by the spirits - shén gōng guǐ lì