one 's face has grown purple and one 's nose is swollen

one 's face has grown purple and one 's nose is swollen

The Chinese idiom, Li ǎ NQ ī NGB í zh ǒ ng in pinyin, is used to describe severe facial injuries. It's from Zhu Bajie eating watermelon.

Idioms and allusions

Bao Lei's Zhu Bajie eats watermelon: "after a few steps, Bajie steps on a melon skin and pours on it together, which makes him feel blue and swollen." "Flower City" No.3, 1981: "poor old writer, who is nearly sixty years old and has had a class in Lu Yi, Yan'an. He has a black face and swollen nose, and his forehead is bleeding!"

Discrimination of words

[pinyin code]: lqbz