work along both lines

work along both lines

Two pronged, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Shu ā nggu ǎ NQ í Xi à, originally refers to painting with both hands at the same time, refers to doing a thing in two aspects at the same time or using two methods at the same time. It comes from the book of pictures and stories.

Analysis of Idioms

Go hand in hand and keep pace with each other

The origin of Idioms

Guo Ruoxu, Song Dynasty, wrote in his book "notes on pictures and stories" that "in Tang Dynasty, Yuan Zhang's painting of landscape and pine stone is more famous than that of the world. He is especially good at painting Songte's image. He is good at holding two pipes together for a while. One is to grow branches, the other is to wither them. He is strong in wind and rain, and proud in smoke and mist. "

Idiom usage

Subject predicate type; used as predicate and attributive; means that two things are going on at the same time. Example the broom swept away by the Zhuang people in the Qing Dynasty: "my younger brother's foolish opinion and original thinking, while suppressing superstition, he revived the school, attached importance to moral education, and made his personality more and more noble." In this way, it is possible to overcome the danger of capitulation of the big landlords and the big bourgeoisie and strive for a better future. Mao Zedong's "overcoming the danger of surrender and striving for a better situation.".

Idioms and allusions

Zhang Xun, a famous painter of Tang Dynasty, painted pine trees in a very special way. He drew up two pens by hand, one drawing twigs and the other withered. No one who has seen his painting does not admire his ability to work in two ways. At that time, someone commented that "Zhang's painting is really a two pronged process."