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Drawing Legs on a Snake

佚名 · Warring States story · four-character fixed expression

to ruin something by overdoing it

画蛇添足

Climbing the Leyou Plateau

李商隐 · Tang dynasty · five-character quatrain

Toward evening my mood is out of sorts; I drive the carriage up to the ancient plain. The setting sun is boundlessly fine— it is only that dusk is near.

登乐游原

Poetry

A Question for Liu the Nineteenth

白居易 · Tang dynasty · five-character quatrain

New unstrained wine, its froth green as ants; a small stove of red clay. Evening comes, the sky is about to snow— can you drink a cup?

问刘十九