a long-toothed man with a livid face

a long-toothed man with a livid face

Qingmian fangs, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin for Q à ngmi à NLI á oy á, Qingmian: Indigo face; fangs: long teeth exposed outside the mouth. It means to describe the appearance of evil spirits in the old stories of gods and monsters. It describes the face as extremely ferocious and ferocious. It comes from preface to water margin by Zhang Dai of Ming Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Zhang Dai's preface to Water Margin card in Ming Dynasty: "Wu Daozi painted the prison in disguise, green face and tusks, and turned into a group of pure Qi."

Discrimination of words

Grinning and frowning. [antonym] kind and pleasant.

Idiom usage

It has a derogatory meaning. Lu Xun's Diary of a Madman: "all the people in that group burst into laughter."