始作俑者

shǐ zuò yǒng zhě

Meaning

(lit.) the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom); (fig.) the originator of an evil practice

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始shǐto begin, to start; beginning女台作zuòto make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform亻乍俑yǒngwooden figure buried with dead亻甬者zhěthat which; they who; those who耂日