The meaning of crane's knees and wasp's waist refers to two of the eight diseases of poetry's rhythm, which generally refers to the problems in poetry's rhythm; it also refers to two diseases of calligraphy. Two of the eight diseases of poetry. Bee waist refers to the second character and fifth character of a five-character poem having the same sound. The words are thick at both ends and thin in the middle, just like a wasp's waist. In other words, it refers to the whole sentence with voiced sounds but one word in the middle that has a voiceless sound, which is called wasp waist. There are three ways to say "Crane's knees": one is that the fifth and fifteenth characters in the five-character poem couplet have the same tone; the other is that the first and last two characters of the whole sentence have a flat tone and the third character has a oblique tone; the other is that the whole sentence is clear with one character in the middle. turbidity.
Crane's knees, wasp's waist, Chinese idiom, pinyin is hè xī fēng yāo, comes from Song Dynasty Wei Qingzhi's "Poet's Jade Chips·Poetry Diseases·Poetry Diseases There Are Eight": "The third word is wasp's waist, the second character It cannot have the same sound as the fifth character... The fourth word is "Crane's Knees", and the fifth character cannot have the same sound as the fifteenth character. "Idiom usage: as object and attributive; mostly used in metaphors. Example: Recently, my poetry and thoughts have been very special, and my sufferings have been inseparable from time to time. The trend of Yunteng wave has not declined, how can the crane's knees and the wasp's waist be hindered? ——Li Bo of the Tang Dynasty, "A long song for the return of my brother Shu"
Example: Chen Zao of the Song Dynasty, "Zhu Cuisuo's Poems Composed Three Jue Xizhi": "There are both dragons and tigers in the canals, and cranes "I haven't removed the waist of a wasp at the knees." "Fang Jingxian, Song Jinglian, sitting at night watching Wuzhong's miscellaneous poems and Xuanhe Bogu Pictures wrote this" by Wu Lai of the Yuan Dynasty: "The poet has a body with a crane's knees and a wasp's waist, and the ritual image is like a dragon's head and a pig's belly." ”