poor penmanship
Spring earthworm and autumn snake, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch ū NY ǐ nqi ū sh é, metaphor is not well written, zigzag, like the trace of earthworm and snake crawling. It comes from the biography of Wang Xizhi in the book of Jin.
The origin of Idioms
According to the biography of Wang Xizhi in the book of Jin, "the line is like a spring worm, and the words are like a snake in autumn."
Idiom usage
As an object or attribute; used in calligraphy, etc. example bee waist and crane knee laugh at Xiyi, spring earthworm and autumn snake disease Ziyun. Song Sushi's five wonders of hekongmizhou
poor penmanship
be contented in poverty and devoted to things spiritual - jūn zǐ gù qióng
Draw the rope and spread the cloth - yǐn shéng qí bù
a fish leaping over the dragon gate -- have passed a competitive examination - yú shēng lóng mén
discard the false and retain the true - qù wěi cún zhēn
Things seldom seen are strange. - liáo dōng bái shǐ