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- From: wwc@vsnhda.cern.ch (Wolfgang Wander)
- Newsgroups: alt.chinese.text
- Subject: Search for chinese proverb.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.131949.21454@dxcern.cern.ch>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 13:19:49 GMT
- Sender: news@dxcern.cern.ch (USENET News System)
- Organization: European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva
- Lines: 13
- Originator: wwc@vsnhda
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- We're looking for a classical chinese proverb the sense of which is about
- 'Real art is reached when there is nothing dispensable.'
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- This proverb is based on a story from old china where the emperor asks an
- artist to draw a dragon. In the end the artist only draws a long golden line
- and says the words quoted above.
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- If you know it, please e-mail it in pinyin (including tones) to
- cps@uxnhd3.mpi-hd.mpg.de
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- Xiexie in advance,
-
- wolfgang
-