with dishevelled hair and a dirty face

with dishevelled hair and a dirty face

Disheveled head and dirty face, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is p é NGT ó UG à UMI à n, meaning dishevelled hair and dirty face. In the old days, it was used to describe the poor people's poor living conditions. There is no modification. It comes from the biography of Wei Shu Feng Ji.

Idiom usage

The children of the poor turn around in the street, while the children of the rich turn around at home. Lu Xun's "Fengfeng · Suigan Lu 25" and "Wei Shu · Fengji Zhuan" said: "a gentleman should correct his clothes and respect his vision. Why should he be unkempt and then virtuous?" Yan Zhitui's family precepts in the southern and Northern Dynasties: "Zi Ze Cao Kun's coarse clothes; dishevelled head and dirty face." Director Zhang Zhicheng, a popular novel in Beijing, said: "Zhang Sheng looks at councillor Zhang, with four gold marks on his face, unkempt and untidy clothes." The third volume of Feng Menglong's Xingshi Hengyan in Ming Dynasty: "when I heard the cry, I came forward to see that although I was unkempt and dirty, I never knew it. How can I not recognize it?" "the seventy seventh chapter of a dream of Red Mansions:" Qingwen's water and rice didn't touch her teeth on the fourth or fifth day, and now she's pulled down from the Kang, unkempt and dirty, and two women's hands have gone to fight. " Lu Xun's hot wind · random feelings 25: the children of the poor are unkempt and dirty on the street, while the children of the rich are coquettish and coquettish at home.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] dirty face and slovenness of a prisoner [antonym] pretty face and elegant demeanor

The origin of Idioms

"Wei Shu · fengdaozhuan" says: "a gentleman should correct his clothes and respect his vision. Why should he be unkempt and unkempt, and then be virtuous?"