Silver hook and iron painting
Silver hook and iron painting, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y í ng à UTI à Hu à, which means to describe the vigorous and soft beauty of calligraphy. It comes from Ouyang Xun's on using pen in Tang Dynasty.
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
I want to learn calligraphy in the early Tang Dynasty. Shen Zengzhi's poem of the Qing Dynasty
Analysis of Idioms
Iron painting and silver hook
Chinese PinYin : yín gōu tiě huà
Silver hook and iron painting