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
relatives from the various branches of the family - zhū qīn liù juàn
The ape crows and the crane crows - yuán tí hè lì
leadership rendered ineffectual by recalcitrant subordinates - wěi dà bù diào
depend on others for one's livelihood - wēi gàn jiù shī