A cottage

A cottage

MaoMu Penghu, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m á OSH ì P é NGH ù, which means thatched house, and describes the extremely poor housing. It comes from the biography of Kong Chun in the book of Song Dynasty.

Idiom explanation

Mao: thatch; Peng: Feipeng, the name of the grass. A thatched house. The house is extremely simple.

The origin of Idioms

In the biography of Kong Chun in the book of Song Dynasty, it is said that "the cottage is full of houses, the court is full of grass and the path is full of weeds, and there are only several volumes of books on the bed."