诗情画意

詩情畫意
shīqíng-huàyì
idiom #51,520

Meanings

  1. 1 the feel of poetry and the flavor of painting
  2. 2 picturesque and poetic; lyrical charm

Examples

HSK 6
Jiāngnán de xiǎozhèn chōngmǎn shīqínghuàyì.
The small towns of Jiangnan are filled with poetic, painterly charm.
HSK 7-9
Tāmen de shēnghuó guò de yǒushēng-yǒusè, chōngmǎn shīqínghuàyì.
They live a vivid life full of poetic charm.

Tips

culture
Reflects the classical Chinese aesthetic ideal that poetry and painting are sister arts - Su Shi wrote that in Wang Wei's work 诗中有画,画中有诗 (poetry within painting, painting within poetry). The idiom compresses that ideal into a descriptor for anything evoking both.

Stroke Order

shī
qíng
huà