swift movement of calligraphy

swift movement of calligraphy

Dragon and snake flying, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is l ó ngsh é f ē idॸng, meaning as if the dragon flying, snake swimming; describes the momentum of calligraphy bold, strong pen. From xijiangyue pingshantang.

The origin of Idioms

Song Sushi's poem "xijiangyue pingshantang" said: "ten years do not see the old fairy, the dragon and snake flying on the wall."

Idiom usage

It describes the bold and unrestrained style of calligraphy. example the Taoist rolled up the mouth of his robe, ground it into thick ink, dipped it into the pen, and flew on the screen wall, waving twenty-eight words the size of the mouth of the bowl. The 37th chapter of Chen Chen's Shuihu houzhuan in Qing Dynasty

Idiom story

In Tang Dynasty, Prime Minister Zhang didn't write well, but he liked to write cursive script. He didn't write according to the regular cursive script, but created his own. He wrote the characters so fast that people couldn't recognize them. It was hard for his nephew who helped him copy. Once, when his nephew helped him copy a poem, he asked him if he could not recognize the word. He could not recognize it himself, but he blamed his nephew for not asking him earlier.