丹青引赠曹将军霸

丹青引贈曹將軍霸

Dānqīng yǐn zèng Cáo jiāngjūn Bà

proper noun

Meanings

1 Song of Painting, for General Cao Ba, Du Fu's poem in praise of the court painter Cao Ba

Characters

song (a verse form)

general (将军)

Ba (曹霸: Cao Ba)

Examples

HSK 5

《丹青引赠曹将军霸》是杜甫写给画家曹霸的诗。

《 Dānqīng yǐn zèng Cáo jiāngjūn Bà 》 shì Dù Fǔ xiě gěi huàjiā Cáo Bà de shī.

Song of Painting, for General Cao Ba is a poem Du Fu wrote for the painter Cao Ba.

HSK 7-9

成语“英姿飒爽”和“惨淡经营”都出自《丹青引赠曹将军霸》。

Chéngyǔ " yīngzī-sàshuǎng " hé " cǎndàn-jīngyíng " dōu chūzì 《 Dānqīng yǐn zèng Cáo jiāngjūn Bà 》.

The idioms 'dashing and valiant' and 'painstaking effort' both come from Song of Painting, for General Cao Ba.

Tips

history

曹霸, a descendant of 曹操, painted horses and portraits for 唐玄宗 and had fallen into poverty after the An Lushan rebellion. Du Fu met him in Chengdu around 764 and wrote of him 丹青不知老将至，富贵于我如浮云。 'Painting, he never noticed old age coming; wealth and rank were floating clouds to him.'

usage

丹青 'red and blue-green', the two commonest pigments, means painting, and 引 is a kind of song, like 歌 and 行 in other titles. 将军 was Cao Ba's honorary military rank.

Stroke Order

丹 dān

青 qīng

引 yǐn

赠 zèng

曹 Cáo

将 jiāng

军 jūn

霸 bà