have ready plans to meet a situation(chéng zhú zài xiōng)

have ready plans to meet a situation

have ready plans to meet a situation. Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch é ngzh ú Z à IXI à ng, which means that the whole picture of bamboo before painting is in my heart. Make up your mind before you do something. It comes from the record of Yanzhu in Yuandang valley.

Idiom explanation

Chengzhu: ready made complete bamboo. The whole picture of bamboo before painting is in my heart. Make up your mind before you do something.

The origin of Idioms

Su Shi, Song Dynasty, wrote in Wen Yu Ke Hua Yuan Dang Gu Yan Zhu Ji that "if you want to draw bamboo, you must first become a bamboo in your heart."

Idiom usage

He answered the teacher's questions with ease and with a clear mind.

Idioms and allusions

Wen Tong, a writer and painter of the Northern Song Dynasty in chuyang County, likes singing and painting bamboo to express his integrity. His ink and bamboo painting is naturally interesting and unique, which is called "Huzhou painting school" in the painting circle. Wen Tong maintains that when painting bamboo, one must have a mature mind. This idiom comes from Yangxian County in Hanzhong. In 1075, Wentong was appointed governor of Yangzhou. During his three years in office, he worked hard and observed the people's situation. He saw that the burden of tea farmers was too heavy. He wrote to the court to get rid of the malpractice in the "tea law" and bring benefits to tea farmers. At the same time, the government of the state and the city were built, and the education was valued, which was supported by the people. Wen Tongshan is good at poetry, calligraphy and painting, especially at painting ink and bamboo. The superb skill of bamboo painting comes from his long-term careful observation and sketching of bamboo. At that time, there was a large bamboo forest growing in Yuandang valley of Yangzhou (now Zhifang township of Yangxian county). The poem "Yuandang Valley" in the same article praises: "the pool is connected with the valley, the wave dissolves, and the bamboo is mixed with the smoke on both sides. It's not like I'm in the dust. " In his spare time, he often visited the valley to see bamboo, recite poems and paint, and sometimes took his wife to appreciate and plant bamboo. Over the years, various forms of bamboo have been branded in my mind, accumulating countless paintings. In the practice of bamboo painting, he first created the method of deep ink as the surface and light ink as the back. His painting skills are getting better and better. His ink and bamboo paintings are lifelike, natural and elegant. He advocates that bamboo painting should be "mature in mind". Later, bamboo painters learned a lot from him, known as "Huzhou bamboo school". In Yangzhou, Hanzhong, Wen Tong once presented his cousin Su Shi with a picture of Yan bamboo, which Su Shi cherished. Su wrote in Wen Yu Ke Hua Yuan Dang Gu Yan Zhu Ji: "when you can draw bamboo, you must first become a bamboo in your chest. When you write, you can see the person you want to draw. You can shake your pen and follow his thoughts." Chao Buzhi, a contemporary litterateur and painter, wrote a poem to his nephew Yang Keyi to study literature and to seek poetry from bamboo. He also wrote a poem that "when he can draw bamboo, the bamboo is already in the chest". In this way, "the bamboo is in the chest" becomes an allusion. The original meaning of "bamboo in mind" or "bamboo in mind" is to say that when a painter paints bamboo, he should have a specific and vivid image of bamboo in his mind, then he will be handy and the bamboo he paints will be real and natural. Later, this idiom is not confined to painting bamboo, but refers to mature ideas and methods in people's mind when they encounter and deal with problems

Chinese PinYin : chéng zhú zài xiōng