弄笔吟

弄筆吟

Nòngbǐ yín

proper noun

Meanings

1 Playing with the Brush, a poem by the Song philosopher Shao Yong

Characters

to play with; to handle

chant; song (in poem titles)

Examples

HSK 5

《弄笔吟》是北宋邵雍写的一首诗。

《 Nòngbǐ yín 》 shì Běisòng Shào Yōng xiě de yì shǒu shī.

'Playing with the Brush' is a poem by Shao Yong of the Northern Song.

HSK 7-9

成语“勤能补拙”可以追溯到邵雍的《弄笔吟》。

Chéngyǔ " qínnéng-bǔzhuō " kěyǐ zhuīsù dào Shào Yōng de 《 Nòngbǐ yín 》.

The idiom 'diligence makes up for lack of talent' can be traced back to Shao Yong's 'Playing with the Brush'.

Tips

culture

Its best-known couplet is 弄假像真终是假，将勤补拙总输勤 'a fake made to look real is still a fake; make up for clumsiness with diligence, and you still lose to the diligent'. The idioms 弄假成真 and 勤能补拙 grew out of these lines. 邵雍 (1011–1077) was a Northern Song philosopher, known for his number-based reading of the Book of Changes.

Stroke Order

弄 nòng

笔 bǐ

吟 yín