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Knife head swallowtail

【Idioms】

【Pinyin】

dāo tóu yàn wěi

【Definition】

Knife head: the tip of the knife, also refers to the body of the knife; swallowtail: swallow's tail feather, which refers to a unique style at the foot of Yan Zhenqing's book body, which is caused by the end of the pen, first hard to frustrate, and then lightly pick out the edge. When the posterity is facing the body, when the stroke is out of the pen, the pen is empty, such as the open scissors, which is a sick pen. The figurative pen is strong and powerful.

【Source】

surname. Guo Ruoxuan, "Pictures see and hear zhi. Zhao Guangfu: "(Zhao Guangfu) works to paint the Buddhist Tao, and is also a refined horse, with a sharp pen and a famous knife head and swallowtail." ”

Explanation: Zhao Guangfu is good at painting Taoist and Buddhist figures, but also proficient in painting some horses and animals, and is also very skilled at some bamboo and flower paintings, and his brush is sharp and sharp, called "knife head swallowtail".

【Synonyms】

Three points into the wood, force through the back of the paper, the pen force is thousands of jun

【Antonyms】

A glimpse of paper graffiti dragonflies dotted with water

【Usage】

Joint, as object, definite; positive; used in calligraphy, etc.

【Idiom Story】

During the Song Dynasty, there was a man named Zhao Guangfu, a native of Huayuan, Yaozhou (present-day Yao County, Shaanxi), who was cloth cloth in the Southern Tang Dynasty of the Fifth Dynasty, a student of the Academy of Drawings at the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, and was called "Zhao Commentary" in his hometown.

One idiom a day: knife-headed swallowtail

Later, Zhao Guangfu became a painter. Zhao Guangfu's paintings have smooth lines, clear characters, thick bones, meticulous depictions, elegant and calm colors, and the legacy of Tang Wu Daozi.

Zhao Guangfu was also particularly good at painting portraits related to Taoists and Buddhists, and he also studied the good horses produced in the western regions of Saiwai. When Zhao Guangfu was a student of the Academy of Graphics, he created murals at the Kaiyuan and Longxing Temples in Xuchang, and the "Five Hundred Arhat Diagrams" painted at the Kaiyuan Temple were "interesting in posture and demeanor, and it is wonderful to sit and listen to, and it looks like a sad viewer." The image of the horse he painted was vivid, and the appearance was vivid, such as playing with the wind and pulling rope, eating grass and drinking water, running and lying upright, hissing and stumbling, thin and old, tired and tired, and even the shape of a disease, very realistic, called a divine product.

Guo Ruoxuan in "Pictures See and Hear Zhi. Zhao Guangfu said in "Gong painting The Buddha's Tao, and is also a refined horse, the pen is sharp and sharp, and the famous knife head swallowtail." This means that Zhao Guangfu is good at painting Taoist and Buddhist figures, but he is also proficient in painting some horses and beasts, and he is also very skilled at some bamboo and flower paintings, and his brush is sharp and sharp, called "knife head swallowtail".

Zhao Guangfu's scroll works are found in only a few of the historical records. For example, "Horse Diagram", "Merit Diagram", "King Li Buddha Diagram", "Horse Diagram", etc., fortunately the "Wild Buddha Diagram" has been preserved (now in the Cleveland Museum of Art). This is a masterpiece of ancient figures, which is of great significance to the development of figure painting in China.

【Example of sentence construction】

Under the careful guidance of this teacher, after continuous efforts, he finally practiced the unique skill of knife head swallowtail.

If you want to practice calligraphy with a knife head and swallowtail, you need not only to practice hard for a long time but also to have the guidance of a famous teacher.

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