Learn idioms during the holidays, +2 per day (2022.2.14)

Learn idioms during the holidays, +2 per day

（2022.2.14）

Practice makes perfect

It means that when you are skilled in doing things, you will master the tricks.

During the Song Dynasty, there was a man named Chen Zhiyao who broke a thin branch with an arrow. While he was smug, an old man selling oil next to him placed a copper coin on the mouth of the oil gourd, scooped a spoonful of oil and poured it down from a high place, and the oil passed through the small hole of the copper coin and flowed into the oil gourd. Chen Zhiyao was very surprised, and the old man said, "It's just that practice makes perfect." ”

A two-pronged approach

It's a metaphor for two things going on at the same time, or preparing with both hands.

Tube: Finger pen.

There was a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty named Zhang Xuan, who was good at painting landscapes and pine stones, especially pine trees. When Zhang Xuan painted, there was something different about it, he could hold a tube of pen in his left and right hands, and he could paint on paper at the same time. One tube of brush strokes of green pine branches, the other strokes of dry branches, the painting of pine trees is exquisite, who sees his paintings are amazed, people say that he is a magic pen.