vigorous touches and fine strokes
Iron painting and silver hook, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ti à Hu à y í ng à u, which means calligraphy is vigorous and soft. From on the use of pen.
Idiom explanation
Draw: stroke; hook: hook.
The origin of Idioms
Ouyang Xun, Tang Dynasty, wrote in his on the use of pen: "hovering and pitching, tolerance and romantic, rigid iron painting, charming as silver hook."
Idiom usage
It can be used as predicate, attribute and object to describe the vigorous and soft beauty of calligraphy. examples I want to see the calligraphy of the pre Tang Dynasty. Shen Zengzhi's poem entitled "the four great rhymes of the Northern Song Dynasty" and Wen Yiduo's "the first chapter of spring" in Qing Dynasty: "it is painted with some cursive script of monk huaisu."
Chinese PinYin : tiě huà yín gōu
vigorous touches and fine strokes
present a false appearance of peace and prosperity. fěn shì tài píng
A good teacher makes a good student. míng shī chū gāo tú
there were many roads and much business. liù jiē sān shì