Usually used as a predicate in a sentence, it describes the vigor of calligraphy strokes and also indicates the quickness of calligraphy.
Use example:
Song Jizhong's "Two Rhymes Appreciating Zhao Baoxue": "Poetry is strong and Shisheng Jin is ancient, and the pen is long and snake."
Song Qianchu's "Drunken Penglai": "Take a dragon and a snake with a pen, carve a romantic sentence, and treat guests with high hospitality."
Song Shi Xiao you "Man, the first chapter, Zhang": "The pen follows the dragon and snake, and the words pour into the river. Wonderful year, both morality and art. "
At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Usdao's "Two Rhymes Answer Yang Shilian's Two Poems One": "The pen takes the dragon and snake to praise the sage, and the poem becomes beautiful and thin."
Ming Ling _ Early "A Glimpse at a Glance" Volume 20: "The scholar Xiao has a splendid chest, and the pen is gone."
Idiom allusions of dragons and snakes;
One autumn, the imperial historian of the Tang Dynasty hosted a banquet in the palace to entertain guests. The wedding was very lively. While drinking, a little monk came. He said, "He is a disciple of Huai Su, the master of Xuanzang. He has never given up drinking since he became a monk, and he has written a good cursive script. In his hometown of Changsha and the famous houses in seven counties of Hunan, every family has his own screen. "
After three glasses of wine, why raise a glass to thank you? "Poetry is indispensable for its beautiful scenery. How about asking Li Xian Hanlin to write poems in memory of the grand event? " Li Bai didn't refuse, but said, "Poetry is born because of prosperity, and wine is born because of prosperity, but it's not enough. Please ask Huai Su to spend a lot of money to help poetry in public. "
Huai Su, formerly known as Qian Zangzhen, was born in Changsha and later became a monk. Huai Su is his dharma name. Huai Su has made great efforts in learning to write. He lived in poverty and couldn't afford paper, so he planted a big banana tree in the yard, picked long and wide banana leaves and practiced writing on paper.
When the banana leaves were used up, they made a wooden plate and a board, painted them and practiced calligraphy on the floor. After a long time, I wrote across the wooden pallet and the board. All the waste pens he used to write were thrown in the open space in the yard. Over time, waste pens have accumulated a lot. He covered them with earth and buried them, and named them "Pen Tomb".
Huai Su loves to drink, too. Drunk and excited, pick up a pen and write hard when you meet a place where you can write. Therefore, the walls of the temple where he lives, the utensils he uses, and the clothes he wears are all written with words.
Extremely carried out a few boxes of linen and silk, and put a few good Xuanzhou inkstones on the case. Very few people take turns to inject water to grind ink. Huai Su put down his glass and floated up, and the whole class was suddenly silent.
However, when I saw the young monk dip his pen in ink and stare at the paper and silk for a while, I suddenly felt lucky. My arm turned to my wrist and I finished writing one by one. Before long, there were cursive scripts with aura all over the floor, and several boxes of linen were used up in an instant.
When Huai Su threw the pen away and returned to his seat, Li Bai's cursive song had already been written, and he sang in public: "The young man's name is Huai Su, and the cursive name is chinese odyssey? My teacher leaned against the rope when he was drunk? When I got up, I didn't stop writing to the pen. A row of numbers is as big as a bucket. NiNi was stunned by the smell of ghosts and gods. I always saw the dragon and snake go away? " He commented: "When the master writes, the left disk turns to the right. It's really a long snake! Good words, good poems! "