Snow sideburns and frost maid
Xuebinshuang maid, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Xu ě B ì nshu ā nghu á n, meaning white hair. It refers to the elderly. It comes from the story of pipa, the separation of Bozhe and his wife.
The origin of Idioms
Yuan Gaoming's the story of pipa, the separation of husband and wife of Bozhe, said: "although the clouds and the rain, you can cast away the couple for two months; even if you have a snow sideburns and a frost maid, you don't remember your parents in their eighties."
Idiom usage
As an object or attribute; used in figurative sentences
Snow sideburns and frost maid
cause an exchange of partners by mistake between two couples engaged to marry - luàn diǎn yuān yāng
Jumping in the Yellow River - tiào zài huáng hé xǐ bù qīng
It's convenient for you to be with others - yǔ rén fāng biàn,zì jǐ fāng biàn