画龙点睛的故事出自唐代张彦远约在公元847年写成的《历代名画记》，这是中国第一部系统的绘画通史。书中记载：「张僧繇于金陵安乐寺画四龙于壁，不点睛，每云：点之即飞去。」后来经人一再请求，他点了眼睛，「须臾，雷电破壁」，点了睛的龙乘云飞去，「不点睛者」还留在墙上。

The story of dotting the eyes of the dragon comes from Records of Famous Painters of All Dynasties, written by Zhang Yanyuan of the Tang dynasty around the year 847, the first systematic history of painting in China. It records that Zhang Sengyou painted four dragons on a wall of the Anle Temple in Jinling but left out their eyes, always saying that if he dotted them, the dragons would fly away. When people kept asking, he dotted the eyes; in a moment thunder and lightning broke the wall, the dragons with eyes flew off on the clouds, and those without eyes remained.

张僧繇是南朝梁代的大画家，梁武帝时曾为金陵许多佛寺绘制壁画。他和东晋的顾恺之、南朝宋的陆探微，被后人合称为「六朝三大家」。故事里的金陵，就是今天的江苏南京，在南北朝时期是南方几个朝代的都城。

Zhang Sengyou was a great painter of the Liang dynasty in the Southern Dynasties period, and under Emperor Wu of Liang he painted murals for many Buddhist temples in Jinling. Together with Gu Kaizhi of the Eastern Jin and Lu Tanwei of the Liu Song dynasty, he is known as one of the Three Great Masters of the Six Dynasties. Jinling in the story is today Nanjing in Jiangsu Province, which was the capital of several southern dynasties.

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