Wash the marrow and cut the hair

Wash the marrow and cut the hair

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is x ǐ Su ǐ f á m á o, which means to clean the bone marrow and remove the hair; it means to thoroughly remove the filth of oneself. It means to be reborn. It's from the book body of young scholars.

The origin of Idioms

In Cheng dengji's "learning from qionglin in childhood: body", it is said that "Zhang Liang of the Han Dynasty has his feet on his ears, while Dongfang Shuo has his hair washed."

Idiom usage

To be reborn is to be reborn.

Idiom story

During the Western Han Dynasty, Dongfang Shuo said that he knew an immortal named Huang meiweng. He washed his bone marrow once in 3000 years and peeled his skin and changed his hair once in 2000 years. He was over 9000 years old and had washed his bone marrow three times and cut his hair five times.