The pen is old and the ink is beautiful
Old brush and beautiful ink, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ǐ L ǎ om ò Xi ù, meaning that the pen posture is old and the ink rhyme is beautiful. It comes from badongpo's Ruquan Fu.
The origin of Idioms
Song Lian of the Ming Dynasty wrote "Ru Quan Fu" in badongpo book: "Li Shilang Wei Zhi is a man of pen and ink, who is full of the wind and waves on the sea. He should be the first scholar of the Soviet Union in the sea. He knows his words sincerely."
Idiom usage
It refers to the style of writing.
The pen is old and the ink is beautiful
compete with each other for beauty of looks - zhēng qí dòu yàn
fight a hundred battles , win a hundred victories - bǎi zhàn bǎi shèng