Chen Yinque and Guo Moruo are both great historians. The former is the bourgeoisie and the latter is the proletariat. The two have very different views and have little contact. Guo Yong made a pair of sentences to describe the relationship between them.
Ren shui Geng Jin long Hu dou,
Guo Long and Chen Biao are both wind and horses.
To understand the beauty of this pair of sentences (especially the first sentence), you need to know something about the five-element zodiac in heavenly stems and earthly branches. Simply put, it is easy to understand:
Guo Moruo was born in 1892, in the twelfth lunar month. Ren is a heavenly stem, and Chen is a earthly branch. Tiangan corresponds to the five elements (golden water, wood, fire and earth) and belongs to water, so Guo represents the animal year with water; The earthly branch corresponds to the zodiac, and Chen corresponds to the dragon, so Guo belongs to the dragon.
Look at Chen Yinque again. Chen, 1890, Gengyin year of the lunar calendar. Geng is the heavenly stem and Yin is the earthly branch. Geng belongs to gold, so Guo used Geng Jin to represent Chen Yinque's birth year. Chen's earthly branches are yin, and the corresponding zodiac sign is tiger, so Chen belongs to tiger, and their earthly branches are opposite to dragon and tiger respectively.
In this way, Guo Moruo skillfully used the traditional knowledge of Ganzhi, Wuxing and Zodiac, and wrote the first couplet that they were born to come to Long Hudou:
Ren shui Geng Hu dou
The second sentence is better. Although Guo and Chen are natural enemies, the dispute between them belongs to the academic category after all, and there is no need to fight each other. Therefore, Guo wittily took advantage of their physical defects, and Guo (homophonic, wonderful) completed the bottom line:
Guo Long and Chen Biao are both wind and horses.
Yes, the deaf can't hear their opponents, and the blind can't see their opponents. They can only say their own way. It really doesn't matter.
At this point, the reader can't help smiling and clapping: such a wonderful sentence can't be obtained unless he is as talented as Guo Moruo!
This pair of sentences could have become a much-told story in the field of history. Unfortunately, Mr. Guo published the book Li Bai and Du Fu during the Cultural Revolution. When he knew that Chen was criticized and had no strength to fight back, he also stepped on Chen in the book. They are all such idiots anyway.
Time flies, and both of them have passed away for many years. Time has passed, and Guo Moruo, the red man of that year, had a bad reputation and weak influence; And Chen Yinque's academic thought and personality charm are exactly the words in his epitaph to Wang Guowei:
As long as it is the world, there are three lights and Yong Guang.