Beads round and jades run is a Chinese idiom, and its pinyin is zhū yuán yù rùn.
It is a metaphor for a song that is graceful and elegant, or a poem that is fluent and lucid. Run: delicate and smooth. As round as a bead, as glossy as jade.
Origin: Ming Wang Keyu, "Coral Network - Painting and Calligraphy Inscriptions": "Huanghe Xianweng sends his poems and paintings to Yu; the two scholars and friends have a harmony chapter; the bright window is open for play; the beads are round and jade is moist; it shines after the first."
Near synonyms: Flying Spring Sounding Jade? The sound of the remaining beams? not sprawling and not branching? Jade and pearl round? felicitous?
Antonyms: unpleasant to the ear? difficult to see?
Examples:
Qing Dynasty, Zhou Ji 《介存斋論词杂著》: "The Northern Song Dynasty words are mostly about the scene to narrate the feelings, so the beads are round and smooth, the four light exquisite."
Qu Qiubai, "<chaotic bomb> preface": "so-and-so boss, etc., are to 'love beauty' a bit, to say a direct translation of the proverb, is to make a cameo appearance, strung to a pearl round and smooth, full of paper."
Xu Chi's Peony II: "The famous flower girl, Sai Huangpi, sings with a pearl and a jade, unique for a while."