meaning grasped imageries forgotten(dé yì wàng xiàng)

meaning grasped imageries forgotten

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d é y à w à ngxi à ng, meaning to take its spirit and ignore its form. It comes from the Tang Dynasty Liang Su's Zhi Guan Tong Yi.

The origin of Idioms

Liang Su of the Tang Dynasty wrote in his Zhiguan Tongyi: "if you are not smart and profound, you will forget your image. Who can know?"

Idiom usage

In the past, people were deeper than painters, and the position of their self forgetting pictographs could not be observed frequently. Song · Huang Bosi's Dong Guan Yu Lun · travel pictures of Tang people collected by bateng Ziji

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym get carried away

Chinese PinYin : dé yì wàng xiàng