鮮花插在牛糞上

1. • lit. a bunch of flowers poked into a pile of manure
2. • fig. a terrible shame (as when a lovely woman marries an odious man)

Character by character

• 鮮(xiān)fresh
• 花(huā)surname Hua
• 插(chā)insert
• 在(zài)exist
• 牛(niú)surname Niu
• 糞(fèn)manure
• 上(shàng)up