wrinkled skin and white hair -- advanced in age

wrinkled skin and white hair -- advanced in age

Jifu Hefa, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ī f ū h è f ā, meaning wrinkled skin and pale hair, refers to the elderly. It comes from the poem "the old sickness is still explained in poetry".

Idiom explanation

Wrinkled skin and pale hair. Refers to the elderly. The same as "chicken skin and crane hair".

The origin of Idioms

Bai Juyi, Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem: "it's not strange to have a worm's arm and a rat's liver, but it's not strange to have a chicken's skin and a crane's hair.