A question: Can the idiom "妙笔生花" describe the art of calligraphy?

No, "妙笔生花" describes writing talent.

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Basic Explanation

Metaphorically, it is used to describe outstanding writing talent.

Detailed Explanation

Explanation: It is a metaphor for outstanding writing talent.

From: Five Dynasties - Wang Renyu "Kaiyuan Tianbao Legacy - dream pen head flowers": "Li Taibai when he was a young man, dreaming of the use of the pen head flowers after the genius of the support Yi, famous in the world."

Grammar: partial formal; as a predicate; with a positive meaning.

Examples of idioms describing the art of calligraphy:

Brush sound and full of ink: the use of brush and ink is very smooth, very full. It describes the soundness and richness of calligraphy and poetry.

Brush and Dragon Snake: the brush is a dragon and snake leaping. It is also used to describe the writing of calligraphy.

Huangting: Huangting: Taoist classic "Huangting Jing", Jin people have "Huangting Jing" small regular script post. In the old days, there was a saying that "the first writing of Huang Ting is just right". Later, it was used as a metaphor for doing something just right.

Spring earthworms and autumn snakes: the metaphor of poor calligraphy, like the spring earthworms and autumn snake's line as curved.

Sword drawn: the sword is drawn from its sheath and the bow is open. Later, it is also used as a metaphor for calligraphy.

Example: Zuo Qiu Ming wrote a biography of the Spring and Autumn Annals, summarizing the calligraphy of the Spring and Autumn Annals into a number of examples to give a general description. Later, it was said that the classification of examples to illustrate the style of a book was called "Fafan," which means "to cite examples". See also "Fafanqi xuebiao".

Power through paper: originally refers to strong calligraphy, now also used to describe vivid, profound and powerful poetry.

Dragon Flying and Phoenix Dancing: like a dragon flying, like a phoenix dancing. The original description of the momentum of the majestic. Now describes the lively calligraphy, describes the flexible and skillful writing, also describes the lifelike dragon and phoenix modeling art.

Dragons and snakes fly: describes the calligraphy of strong and lively. Su Shi's "Moon in the West River - Ping Shan Tang": "I haven't seen the old immortal for ten years, but the dragon and snake are flying on the wall."

Luan floating phoenix: luan: the legendary phoenix bird. The original description of the calligraphy is elegant, unrestrained. It is also a metaphor for the separation of the husband and wife of the student.

Luan Xiang Feng Zhu: soar: soar: high up. The metaphor of the calligraphy of the flying posture.

Beauty hairpin: calligraphy or poetic style of beautiful and colorful.

Three points into the wood: the original description of strong calligraphy (according to legend, Jin - Wang Xizhi writing on a wooden board, the ink seeped into the board three points deep), now more describes the analysis, description, discussion of the profound and powerful.

Iron painting and silver hooks: painting: strokes; hooks: hooks. Describe the calligraphy and strong and beautiful.