A two-pronged approach! What does it mean?

Two-pronged approach is a Chinese idiom whose pinyin is shuāng guǎn qí xià. It means holding a pen with both hands and painting at the same time. It is a metaphor for doing two aspects of one thing at the same time or using two methods at the same time.

From: Song Dynasty Guo Ruoxu's "Picture Experience·Story Supplement": "Tang Zhang_Yuanwai's paintings of landscapes, turquoise and stones are most famous in the world. He is especially famous for painting pine, and he can hold two pipes at once. Below, one is a growing branch, the other is a dry one, strong in the wind and rain, and proud of the haze."

Translation: "In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Yuan was famous for his paintings of landscapes, turquoise, and pine trees, and he was able to hold two of them. They paint together, one paints growing branches, the other paints withered stems, not afraid of wind and rain, proud of the scenery."

Subject-predicate form; used as predicate and attributive; indicating that two things are going on at the same time.

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1. Start a new stove, a Chinese idiom, pronounced lìng qǐ lú zào, which means to set up another stove. A metaphor for giving up the original and starting from scratch.

Chapter 14 of "Flowers in the Mirror" written by Li Ruzhen of the Qing Dynasty: "The trouble will inevitably reach the point of 'going out to wow', and you will not be able to distinguish between food and excrement, and then you will 'start over again'."

Verb-object; used as subject, predicate, attributive; used to do things

Example: The Second Normal University was disbanded, and it was necessary to start anew and recruit new students and faculty.

2. Open the bow from left to right, a Chinese idiom whose pinyin is zuǒ yòu kāi gōng. It is a metaphor for two hands taking turns to perform the same action or to do several tasks at the same time.

Quote from "Wutong Rain" written by Bai Pu of the Yuan Dynasty: "I can shoot bows from left and right, and possess all eighteen kinds of martial arts."

Translation: I can shoot with both hands. There is nothing that general martial arts cannot do.