Beat the bowl to urge Poetry(jī bō cuī shī)

Beat the bowl to urge Poetry

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is j ī B ō Cu ī sh ī, which means to complete a poem within a limited time, which means that the poem is quick. From the story of heroes and heroines.

The origin of Idioms

Chapter 37 of Wenkang's biography of heroes and heroines in Qing Dynasty: "it's a case in point. The ancients beat the bowl to urge poetry. I'm going to beat the bowl."

Idiom usage

It refers to the time limit for a poem.

Examples

Daily work is too hard, so when we have free time, we occasionally play the game of beating bowls to urge poetry.

Idiom story

In the Southern Dynasties, Xiao Ziliang, king of jingling of Qi Dynasty, often invited literati to drink wine and write poems at night. The time limit for carving candles was one inch, and the poems became four rhymes. Xiao Wenyan thought that it was not difficult, so he and Qiu Lingkai and Jiang Hong changed to beat the bronze bowl to urge the poem, and asked that the sound of the bowl should be made into a poem as soon as it stopped.

Chinese PinYin : jī bō cuī shī