诗中有画

詩中有畫
shīzhōng-yǒuhuà
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 lit. there is a painting in the poem
  2. 2 (of poetry) as vivid as a painting

Examples

HSK 5
苏轼称赞王维“诗中有画,画中有诗”。
Sū Shì chēngzàn Wáng Wéi " shīzhōng-yǒuhuà, huàzhōng-yǒushī ".
Su Shi praised Wang Wei for having painting in his poems and poetry in his paintings.
HSK 7-9
Zhè shǒu shī zhēnshì shīzhōng-yǒuhuà, dúwán hǎoxiàng kànjian le yì fú shānshuǐhuà.
This poem really is a painting in words: after reading it you feel you have seen a landscape painting.

Tips

history
Su Shi wrote of 王维, whose courtesy name was 摩诘: savour his poems and there is painting in them; look at his paintings and there is poetry in them. Wang Wei was a painter as well as a poet, and his landscape poems are the classic case. The phrase is usually paired with 画中有诗.

Stroke Order

诗 shī
中 zhōng
有 yǒu
画 huà