First, pinyin
Graceful [tíng tíng yüLi]?
Second, the source
In the Tang Dynasty, Ling Hudefen, Chen, Pei Ju, Zhao Hongzhi and July, etc., more than ten people compiled the Selected Works in the seventh year of Wude. Volume 18. People's second department. Belle: "If it stands tall and elegant."
Interpretation: Standing like a green hill.
Third, examples
A few years later, my sister has grown into a slim girl.
2. The beautiful lotus in the pond is like a graceful princess; Like a lovely little girl; Like a smiling girl.
Extended information I. Description of allusions
According to different themes, The Collection of Literature and Art extracts relevant sentences from articles of past dynasties. In the category of "beauty", there are many sentences describing beauty in the past dynasties, including a poem "Xie Chufu" by Cai Yong, a scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which describes beauty as "flying like a god beast flapping its wings and falling like a fairy; It is like a green hill when it is still, and jumps like a colorful bird when it is active. Face as bright as the moon, eyes as dazzling as the sun; The color is as fresh as lotus and the skin is as clear as honey. "
Among them, the phrase "towering like a green hill" refers to a beautiful woman standing tall and straight, which means standing like a green hill when she is still. Later, the idiom "slim and graceful" evolved from here to describe a woman's slender and graceful figure. It is also used to describe beautiful flowers, trees, mountains and buildings. For example, in Xie's Fu on Xuanwu Pavilion, there are two sentences to describe the towering height of Xuanwu Pavilion.
Second, beautiful synonyms.
Wandering gracefully [ni m: o ni m: o tí ng tí ng]?
Interpretation: Describe a woman's light and gentle walking posture.
Origin: Chu Qingren won the sixth and seventh chapters of Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties: "Just arrived at the mountain gate, I saw a group of women walking in the alley."
Just as I walked to the entrance of the mountain, I saw a slim beauty coming from the alley.
Third, the antonym of slimness and elegance
He looks bad [qí mà o beyong]?
Interpretation: refers to someone who is ugly.
Source: Tang Peidu's self-titled photo praise: "You are not long; You are not pretty. "
Translation: You have to be talented but not talented, and you have to have no looks.