wrinkled skin and white hair -- advanced in age

wrinkled skin and white hair -- advanced in age

Jipi Hefa, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ī P í h è f à, meaning wrinkled skin and pale hair; refers to the old man. It comes from the ode to bamboo stick.

The origin of Idioms

Yu Xin's Ode to bamboo stick in the Northern Zhou Dynasty: "my son is old, he has hair of a crane, chicken skin, and a head full of teeth."

Analysis of Idioms

Chicken skin and crane hair

Idiom usage

It can be used to describe senility. example carve wood and lead silk to be an old man, to be the same as Zhentong. In Tang Xuanzong's "Song Yin man Lu" and Qing Wang Tao's "Song Yin man Lu · Xian Ren Dao", it is said that "when we inquire about the old friends and relatives, we have all the things; that is to say, one or two of them are already out and out, with Dragon bell, chicken skin and crane hair, and their faces are indistinguishable.