始作俑者

1. • the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom)

     lit.

2. • the originator of an evil practice

     fig.

Character by character

• 始(shǐ)begin
• 作(zuò)do
• 俑(yǒng)wooden figures buried with the dead
• 者(zhě)(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...