an inspired passage
It is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is sh é NL á izh ī B ǐ, which means to describe a work with wonderful sentences and vivid strokes. It's from Wu Jianren's strange situation witnessed in 20 years in Qing Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
The 37th chapter of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in Qing Dynasty: "these three things, I also feel the meaning of my own painting, are really masterpieces."
Idiom usage
[example] I feel as if it is ~. If I write it in other rhyme forms, I can never have such power. Zhou Zuoren's recollection of Zhitang
an inspired passage
when a man dies his administration will be cast away - rén wáng zhèng xī
be beset with troubles internally and externally - nèi wài jiāo kùn
The sound of the tide is sincere - cháo míng diàn chè