What does icing on the cake mean?

Meaning: embroider flowers on the brocade. Metaphors make good things better.

From the poem "Ji Shi" by Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty: "The good invitations are about to cover the cup, and the beautiful singing is still the icing on the cake."

Interpretation: To invite (them) to plan After finishing the glass of wine, the beautiful lyrics are still like the icing on the cake.

Pinyin: jǐn shàng tiān huā

Example: When life is poor, water is sold at the river head in the town at a daily price. When it comes, it is the icing on the cake. Synonyms for No. 1 in "Zhongshan Wolf" by Ming Kanghai: the finishing touch

Pinyin: [ huà lóng diǎn jīng ]

Meaning: a metaphor for adding incisive words in key places when writing or speaking Sentences make the content more vivid and expressive.

Example: This is a good title, but it often adds the finishing touch to the work and stimulates people's interest in reading. Qin Mu's "Appreciation of Car Window Literature"

From: It is said that Zhang Sengyou (yóu) of the Liang Dynasty painted four dragons on the wall of Anle Temple in Jinling. They did not light their eyes and would fly away if they nodded. The people who heard it didn't believe it, so they told him to light it. As soon as two were lit, thunder and lightning broke out, shattering the wall, and two dragons flew up to the sky on the clouds, leaving only two without dotted eyes (see "Famous Paintings of the Past" by Zhang Yanyuan of the Tang Dynasty).