shave one 's head and become a monk

shave one 's head and become a monk

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Xu à f à P à Z à, which refers to the black clothes worn by monks. Shaving one's hair and putting on one's monk's clothes means becoming a monk. It's from the second episode of West Lake: Dang Jianli's wrong birth.

The origin of Idioms

In the second episode of the West Lake, Dang Jia Li was born wrongly by Zhou Ji of the Ming Dynasty: "if you wear the Confucian robe, you will be Confucius; if you cut your hair, you will be shimuni Buddha."

Analysis of Idioms

words whose meaning is similar

Haircut, haircut as a monk

Idiom usage

As predicate, attribute, object; point out home

Examples

After leaving, Wang Hui found another boat and went to Taihu Lake. From then on, her surname changed and she cut her hair. The eighth chapter of scholars by Wu Jingzi in Qing Dynasty