Broken bamboo

Broken bamboo

Duan Luo Chi Chu, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Du à NJI à NCH à ch à, which means incomplete painting and calligraphy. It's from Hua Ji.

Notes on Idioms

Duan: incomplete picture frame; Chu: paper.

The origin of Idioms

"The collection of ancient paintings can be cherished if there is no paper left in it," Volume I of painting inheritance by Deng Chun of Song Dynasty

Idiom usage

As an object or attribute; used in painting and calligraphy, etc. Examples: Nowadays, people often have their own paintings of plum blossom, broken bamboo, people fight for treasure, and many chapters have their own paintings on it. The diary of Shuidong · Wang Yuanzhang's plum painting by Ye Sheng in Ming Dynasty