The mound of the chest - xiōng zhōng qiū hè

Japanese: 胸中丘壑 - きょうちゅうきゅうがく（英語表記）xiōng zhōng qiū hè

This idiom comes from the phrase "In my heart there is a hill and a basin" in Huang Tingjian's poem "Inscribed on the Withered Tree of Zizhan" (Volume 9 of the Sanya Nai Collection), which was titled after a painting by Su Shi during the Song Dynasty in China. It is a complete reinterpretation and internalization of "one hill and a basin" (from the biography of Xie Kun in the Book of Jin), which means to leave oneself above the dust of the world, and also shows the ideal of literati calligraphy through a clear image. It is also called "one's heart has a hill and a basin" and is used as an idiom to express high insight.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国，宋代の蘇軾（そしよく）の画に題した黄庭堅の詩，《子瞻（しせん）の枯木に題す》(《山谷内集》巻九)の〈胸中もとより自ら丘壑有り〉という句からきた成語。身を俗塵の外に置くという意の〈一丘一壑〉(《晋書》謝鯤（しやこん）伝)あるいは〈丘壑〉を換骨奪胎し内面化するとともに，文人墨戯の理想を鮮明なイメージに託して示すもの。〈胸有丘壑（むねにきゆうがくあり）〉ともいい，見識の高さを表す成語としても用いられる。

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