{"id":8423,"date":"2019-10-25T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-reading\/a-chinese-idiom-about-dragon-eyes-hua-long-dian-jing\/"},"modified":"2019-10-25T05:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T05:15:00","slug":"a-chinese-idiom-about-dragon-eyes-hua-long-dian-jing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/a-chinese-idiom-about-dragon-eyes-hua-long-dian-jing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chinese idiom about dragon eyes \u753b\u9f99\u70b9\u775b"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u753b  \u9f99  \u70b9  \u775b<br \/>  hu&agrave; l&oacute;ng di\u01cen j\u012bng<\/p>\n<p>Fill in the eyes to a painted dragon.<\/p>\n<p>A finishing touch. It is said that a famous Chinese painter painted  four dragons without eyes. When asked, he explained that with eyes they  would fly away. Incredulous, his friends insisted on his filling in the  eyes. Sure enough, as soon as the painter added eyes to two of the  dragons, they started flying away. This proverb is most often used to  describe a situation wher one who uses succinct remarks to summarize  the gist of an article or a speech.<\/p>\n<p>Antonym:<\/p>\n<p>\u753b  \u86c7  \u6dfb  \u8db3<br \/>  hu&agrave; sh&eacute; ti\u0101n z&uacute;<\/p>\n<p>Add legs to the snake one has just painted. Do something that is totally unnecessary and spoil what you already have done.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3336102600\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u753b  \u9f99  \u70b9  \u775b<br \/>\n  hu&agrave; l&oacute;ng di\u01cen j\u012bngFill in the eyes to a painted dragon.A finishing touch. It is said that a famous Chinese painter painted  four dragons without eyes. When asked, he explained that with eyes they  would fly away. Incredulous, his friends insisted on his filling in the  eyes. Sure enough, as soon as the painter added eyes to two of the  dragons, they started flying away. This proverb is most often used to  describe a situation wher one who uses succinct remarks to summarize  the gist of an article or a speech.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-8423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-reading","tag-chinese-idiom"],"views":507,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}