Idioms describing popular art and idioms describing elegant art

Chinese idioms comprehensively reflect China's painting, music, dance, opera, calligraphy and other art forms.

In painting. This idiom means that Wen Tong, a painter famous for painting bamboo in Song Dynasty, had a complete idea before he put pen to paper, which is used to describe that he had a complete plan before he did something. "A rabbit begins to fall" describes the agility of writing in order to capture the image in painting. "Big ink" means that painting should start from the main place. "Two-pronged approach" originally means that Cao Zhang, a famous Song painter in the Tang Dynasty, can wield two strokes at the same time, and also means that two things can be done at the same time. "handy" describes skill. "Poetry in painting" describes Wang Wei's paintings in Tang Dynasty as poetic. "Cloud Moon" refers to painting when touched and dyed from the side (later also refers to composition). "Make the finishing point" refers to the key pen and ink in painting (later also refers to writing). In addition, there are idioms such as "painting a snake to add feet", "painting a tiger and a dog" and "painting fat and carving ice", which are used to ridicule the clumsiness of painting, or its futility, or even self-defeating.

Idioms and music culture are also inextricably linked. The rhythm of China ancient music is very subtle, with "five tones" and "six rhythms". "Five tones" refers to the symbol feather of the upper corner of the palace, which is similar to 123456 in notation. This idiom means that people don't understand music at all. "Changing one's palace and changing one's feathers" means changing the tune of music, and it also means that the content of things has changed. "China Merchants Carving Feathers" refers to mastering solemn music. "Law" originally refers to twelve kinds of pipes with different lengths, which are used to set the standard tone, with Huang Zhong and Lu Da as the first two laws. The idiom "Yellow Law" describes the grandeur, solemnity and mystery of music or language. "Huang Zhong destroys" means that a talented person is not appointed.

From idioms such as "playing the flute", "playing the flute", "playing the golden stone and stringed instrument", "the piano is not tuned", "bells and drums chime", "Qin Zheng beckons the instrument" and "Shengqingtong", we can know that ancient musical instruments in China include plucked instruments such as "Qin" and "Se". Idioms such as "Yellow Land", "A piece of palace merchants", "including merchants' signatures", "inviting merchants to carve feathers", "changing merchants' feathers" and "five tones and six rhythms" recorded China's unique ancient music theory and the resulting Gongdiao theory. There are also idioms such as "Zhong Qi Wei Gu", "Qin Zheng Chao Se" and "Thinking about Yan Ge" which reflect the regional characteristics of ancient music life in China. "Spring Snow" and "Xialiba People" recorded ancient music tracks, while "The Great Sound and the Sound of Hope", "The Sound Beyond the String" and "The Echoes" reflected the ancient people's pursuit of the musical realm, namely "the sound of righteousness" and "the echoes". Striving for strings and hurting bamboo reflect the effect of ancient silk and bamboo music playing different music; Striving for strings, playing bamboo and beating gongs and drums show different playing methods of different musical instruments; Qin Xin Jian Dan, Qin Broken the Strings, Qin Song and Jiu Fu, and Qin and Qi He show that the ancient people in China originated from music.

There are also operas, dances, calligraphy, seal cutting and painting. Like music, we can systematically and completely understand their basic characteristics from idioms. In addition, the idioms "beating drums with rubber posts", "fiddling", "the room is like a cantilever", "copper-clad iron plate", "stringed stringed instrument", "mourning bamboo" and "broken stone" respectively use the names and categories of some musical instruments, and also describe the morphological structure and performance characteristics of some musical instruments, so I won't say much here. As for "one board with three eyes" (also called "one board with one eye"), it refers to the beat of traditional Chinese opera music after the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This idiom means that words and deeds are orderly, and sometimes it means that things are rigid. Huangzhong is an ancient percussion instrument in China, which was mostly used in temples. Therefore, the idiom "Huangzhong Wafu" is used to describe literary works with high or low artistry, "Huangzhong Ruin" is used to describe brilliant talents, and "Huangzhong Road" is used to describe solemn, just, harmonious and mysterious music or words.

Calligraphy is the art of writing Chinese characters with a brush, and it is a special art gradually formed under the long-term application and development of calligraphers' aesthetics. Calligraphy is one of the excellent traditional cultures of the Chinese nation, which not only has the practical value of language, but also has the value of artistic appreciation. Many idioms in Chinese reflect the art of calligraphy, or metaphors of strokes and styles, or metaphors of judging merits and demerits. Such as: dragon and phoenix dance, tense, iron painting silver hook, Huang Ting's first stroke, willow bones and muscles, spring insects and autumn snakes, letter graffiti and so on.

In addition, for example, the idiom "step by step" means that when writing an article, the structure is properly arranged and the words and sentences are in line with the norms; "A thousand miles long" refers to a painting or a poem, which is short in length, but extremely rich in content and far-reaching in artistic conception; "Holding clouds to hold the moon" originally refers to a technique of rendering clouds to set off the moon when painting, and later refers to a technique of expressing the theme or theme through shading or profile description when painting or writing. "Suburban thinness" is a generalization of a certain artistic conception and style of poetry. "Parallel four wives and six wives" refers to the double parallelism of four-character or six-character sentences in parallel prose that prevailed in the Six Dynasties. "One word and one bead" is a metaphor for the clarity, tactfulness and roundness of singing and the essence of poetry writing. "Luan Pu Feng Bo" describes the brushwork of calligraphy. "The sword goes sideways" and "cut to the chase" describe the vigorous and powerful calligraphy with profound skill. The idioms "wear out the inkstone" and "keep waving" describe the efforts and perseverance in practicing calligraphy. "Iron flower and silver hook" describes vigorous calligraphy. Idioms such as "Dragon Leaping Tiger", "Dragon Dancing Phoenix", "Dragonfly Snake" and "Beauty Dancing Flowers" are all used to describe the beauty and vividness of calligraphy. As for the idiom "spring insects and autumn snakes", it is a metaphor for poor calligraphy. Idioms like this are really endless.