"畫龍點睛" meaning in Chinese

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        "2": "Furthermore, 􂀿the sixth-century painter Zhang Sengyou􂁀 drew four dragons in the Anle Temple at Jinling, but did not dot in the eyes. He said: \"If I dot them in, they shall fly away.\" People thought this was absurd, and so asked him to dot them in. At an instant, thunder and lightning broke through the walls, and two of the dragons ascended the clouds to rise to the heavens. The ones which had not had their eyes dotted in were still there.",
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    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "wag⁶ lung⁴ dim² jing¹"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/waːk̚² lʊŋ²¹ tiːm³⁵ t͡sɪŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/xu̯ä⁵¹ lʊŋ³⁵ ti̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/waːk̚² lʊŋ²¹ tiːm³⁵ t͡sɪŋ⁵⁵/"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Jinling",
    "Zhang Sengyou"
  ],
  "word": "畫龍點睛"
}