Crane knee and bee waist refer to two kinds of eight diseases of poetic temperament, which generally refer to the faults made in poetic temperament; It also refers to two kinds of sick pens in calligraphy. The second of eight diseases of poetic rhythm. Bee waist means that the second word and the fifth word of the five-character poem are at the same time, and the words are thick at both ends and thin in the middle, like bee waist; When you say it, the whole sentence is voiced, and the middle word is voiced, called bee waist. There are three kinds of views: one is that the fifth word and the fifteenth word in the two couplets of five-character poems are at the same time; One is that the first and second words of the whole sentence are flat and the third word is flat; One is that the whole sentence is clear and the middle word is turbid.

Crane knee and bee waist, an idiom in China, pinyin is hé xf ē ng yā o, which comes from Song Weiqing's Poem Jade Scrap, Poetry Disease and Poetry Disease with Eight: "The second word is called bee waist, the fourth word is called crane knee, and the fifth word is not allowed to be synchronized with the fifteenth word." Usage of idioms: as object and attribute; Mostly used in figurative sentences. Example: There is nothing wrong with poetic thinking recently. I suffer a little from time to time, and I can't do without it. Yun Teng's waves are not fading, and the crane's knees and bee's waist can be blocked. -Tang Libo "Xi Dishu is Long song"

Example: Song Chenzao's Three Poems by Zhu Cui: "Long Wen Hu Ju Ling Qu has it all, but the crane's knees and hips have not been removed. In the Yuan Dynasty, Wu Lai, Fang Jingxian and Song Jinglian sat watching Wuzhong's miscellaneous poems, and Xuanhe Bo Gu was endowed with this: "Poetry is like a crane's knee and a bee's waist, and ceremony is like a dragon's head and abdomen. " 」