影答形 yǐng dá xíng

yǐng dá xíng phrase shadow responds to form
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: from the poem 形影神 “Substance, Shadow, and Spirit” by 陶淵明 Tao Yuanming 365-427 in Scroll 2 of 陶淵明集 Tao Yuanming Collected Poems (Amies 2021 tr.; see also tr. by Acker 2000, p. 495; Waley 1919, p. 107)