vigorous touches and fine strokes

vigorous touches and fine strokes

Iron painting and silver hook, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ti à Hu à y í ng à u, which means calligraphy is vigorous and soft. From on the use of pen.

Idiom explanation

Draw: stroke; hook: hook.

The origin of Idioms

Ouyang Xun, Tang Dynasty, wrote in his on the use of pen: "hovering and pitching, tolerance and romantic, rigid iron painting, charming as silver hook."

Idiom usage

It can be used as predicate, attribute and object to describe the vigorous and soft beauty of calligraphy. examples I want to see the calligraphy of the pre Tang Dynasty. Shen Zengzhi's poem entitled "the four great rhymes of the Northern Song Dynasty" and Wen Yiduo's "the first chapter of spring" in Qing Dynasty: "it is painted with some cursive script of monk huaisu."