with hair unshevelled and teeth incomplete

with hair unshevelled and teeth incomplete

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is p é NGT ó UL ì ch ǐ, which means disheveled hair and sparse teeth. It describes a person's aging appearance. It comes from the ode to lust of dengtuzi.

The origin of Idioms

Song Yu of Chu Dynasty in the Warring States period wrote: "his wife's hair is puffed, her ears are curled, her lips are full of teeth."

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate and attributive to describe a person's old state. example hair of a crane, skin of a chicken, head full of teeth. Yu Xin's Ode to bamboo stick in the Northern Zhou Dynasty

Idiom story

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu ordered Wang Ba, who abandoned his official position in the period of Wang Mang, to become an official again. Wang Ba refused to do so. He was a good friend of his county commander huzibo. Linghuzibo's son became a meritorious Cao and went to visit Wang ba. When Wang Ba saw that his son was engaged in farm work like him, he felt guilty and sorry for his son.