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Chinese Idiom Story #2 画龙点睛

In this series of Chinese idiom short stories, we’ll be introducing Chinese idioms that have a long-standing history in ancient China but are still in use today. A background story of the idiom will be provided, along with sample sentence(s) to give you an idea of how to use them. Today we will learn the idiom - 画龙点睛(hua4 long2 dian3 jing1, adding several elements in the key part of an artwork or writing will enhance the whole).

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