fall into decay
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Hu ā C á NYU è Qu ē, which means to describe the scene of decline. It's also a metaphor for a broken relationship and a divorce. It comes from the poem "he Wang Xiucai hurts geisha" by Wen Tingyun of Tang Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
Wen Tingyun's poem "he Wang Xiucai's injury to geisha" in Tang Dynasty: "the moon is short and the flowers are incomplete. Don't be pathetic. The flower's whiskers will finally come out and the moon will be round."
Idiom usage
It is a metaphor for the broken relationship between husband and wife. The third discount of Ren Fengzi by Ma Zhiyuan in Yuan Dynasty
Analysis of Idioms
The antonym: happy and full moon
fall into decay
rove among flowers and willows -- visit places brothels - xún huā mì liǔ
they have retired from the court to take their their meal - tuì shí zì gōng