📖 Meaning
Describes someone who is elegant, refined, and full of talent, with an inner grace and depth that is reserved rather than showy. It can also describe poetry, painting, or prose that is ethereal, graceful, and implicitly meaningful rather than overtly explicit.
📜 Origin Story
The phrase originates from the 'Book of Northern Qi' (《北齐书·王昕传》), which records that Wang Xin was a learned and well-bred scholar. He raised nine sons, all of whom were elegant, refined, and implicitly graceful in demeanor — celebrated by the world as the 'Nine Dragons of the Wang family.' The expression thus praises people of distinguished breeding whose cultivation and brilliance are expressed with restraint and subtlety.
💡 Example Usage
他的诗词风流蕴藉，读来令人回味无穷。
His poetry is elegant and implicitly graceful, leaving the reader with an endless aftertaste.
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🔤 Quick Facts
- Chinese: 风流蕴藉
- Pinyin: fēng liú yùn jiè
- Literal Translation: wind, flow, accumulate, cushion
- Category: Quality
- Characters: 4