The words of Wang Xizhi, the "book saint", are loved by everyone. One year on New Year's Eve, he posted Spring Festival couplets twice, but they were not covered. Afraid of being exposed again, he wrote a pair of "semi-finished" Spring Festival couplets: "It never rains but it pours". Sure enough, no one opened them again. On the first day of the new year, he wrote, "Happiness has never been in pairs until today;" Last night it never rains but it pours. " The original two unlucky words have turned into an auspicious sentence, which is amazing.
Lv Meng, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, was living in poverty before he became rich. One year during the Spring Festival, he posted a pair of Spring Festival couplets on his doorstep: "2345,6789", which was horizontally approved as North and South, meaning that one (clothes) was missing and ten (food) was missing, and there was nothing. This couplet is a great satire on the social phenomenon of "building rich and local poor" at that time.
One year on New Year's Eve, Su Dongpo, a great poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, visited his friend Wang. Seeing that he wrote couplets, Su Dongpo presented a pair of couplets and said, "The city gate is big enough to accommodate a thousand riders; Tang Shen doesn't think a hundred men are shouting. " When this couplet came out, the viewers all admired and pondered it.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who is known as the "antithetical couplet to the son of heaven", turned the "inscribed peach symbol" into Spring Festival couplets, and was pushed to the people's portal by the imperial court giants overnight. He also "laughed but didn't answer", and found that a eunuch didn't post Spring Festival couplets, so he ordered someone to take pen and ink and personally wrote a couplet: "Split the road of life and death with both hands; Cut off the roots with one knife. " This couplet is novel in conception, humorous and popular, and it is also a shop-in-shop couplet that conforms to the characteristics of the industry. Thanks to the emperor's initiative, posting Spring Festival couplets has become an indispensable custom to celebrate the New Year.
Xu Wenchang, an outstanding painter and dramatist in Ming Dynasty, went to borrow money from relatives and friends on New Year's Eve and passed by the magistrate's residence. He saw a pair of Spring Festival couplets posted in front of the door. When he took a closer look, it said, "Snow has begun, love the people, if you are a child;" Chimonanthus praecox is in full bloom and law enforcement is like a mountain. " Xu Wenchang was very angry. He knew that this corrupt official relied on someone in the imperial court to do evil, take bribes and pervert the law. When Xu Wenchang came home, he immediately cut out two pieces of red paper, wrote four words on it, and ordered people to put them under the Spring Festival couplets at night. Let the Spring Festival couplets become: "Xue Rui is the first to fall, loving the people if they are children, golden women;" Chimonanthus praecox is in full bloom, law enforcement is like a mountain, and Qian Shan has a back mountain. "On the morning of New Year's Day, people saw the couplets in front of the county magistrate. Everyone was very happy, clapping and cheering, and scrambling to recite.
Legend has it that Zhu Zhishan of the Ming Dynasty went to a hotel to drink one year before the spring. When the shopkeeper saw a famous man coming, he took him to Four Treasures of the Study and asked him to write couplets and make up for the drinks. Zhu Zhishan is a joker. He wrote: "Tomorrow spring is unlucky; Less luck, more money all year round. " After reading it, the shopkeeper said to himself, "Tomorrow is spring, which is really unlucky; Good luck and little money all year round. " Suddenly laughing into anger, want to ask. Zhu Zhishan smiled and read: "Tomorrow is a good spring, not unlucky; There is less luck and more money all year round. " The shopkeeper thought he was just a poor scholar and immediately bought wine to treat his guests. It turned out that Zhu Zhishan played a joke on the shopkeeper by using the function of rhetoric.
In the Qing Dynasty, there was a rich man in Zichuan, Shandong Province. On the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, the novelist Pu Songling was asked to write a book about doors. Pu Songling wrote, "The days are getting longer and longer, and people are getting longer and longer." Who knows, when he heard the fire, he flew into a rage: "What is the life span of a fucking poor man?" If you want to extend your life, it's my mother's turn to extend it! " Pu Songling said: "The couplet should be changed to the second half of the last sentence, otherwise people will laugh." On New Year's Day, people looked at the couplets on the rich man's door and laughed speechless. It turned out that Pu Songling changed the couplets to "growing older, mother prolonging life, and spring drying up Kun and dad."
One year on New Year's Eve, Emperor Qianlong heard that the business of a famous "in-line shoe store" in Langfang, Beijing was very depressed, so he wrote such a couplet as a gift: "Go after it; Hurry into the god of wealth. " When Wu Wen Guan Bai heard the news, he often went to this store to order boots, which made this store famous.
Romantic genius Tang Bohu also wrote such Spring Festival couplets for "Qian Xiaodai": "Business is like spring breeze; Financial resources are like running water. " However, the rich businessman doesn't understand the meaning of "spring breeze" and "flowing water". He thought that "money" and "making a fortune" were not highlighted, and asked Tang Bohu to rewrite them. Tang Bohu had a brainwave and rewritten them like this: "The business in front of the door is like mosquitoes flying in and out on summer nights; The copper coins in the cupboard are just like catching lice in winter. " It makes people laugh.
Ji Xiaolan was a scholar and writer in Qing Dynasty. Once, when he came home for the New Year, a brother in the village asked him to write Spring Festival couplets. He wrote a pair of "earth-shattering portals; One of the best families ",horizontal approval is" acting first ". This is a terrible mistake. He was accused of "committing a crime" by cheating the monarch. When Emperor Qianlong learned of this incident, he immediately called Ji Xiaolan back to Beijing to ask. Ji Xiaolan replied, "I wrote Spring Festival couplets. There is nothing wrong. Isn't this boss selling firecrackers an earth-shattering portal? " The second child is in charge of the fair fight. Isn't it one of the best in the world? Isn't it "acting first" for the third child to sell roast chicken? After a long speech, I smiled.
After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom made Nanjing its capital, there was a story among the people that Shi Dakai, the wing king, had written Spring Festival couplets for an old barber: On New Year's Eve one year, Shi Dakai saw that an old barber had not posted Spring Festival couplets, so he wrote a pair of couplets for him: "Sharpen your hair and ask how many heads there are in the world; And try it every time to see what the old man means? " Couplets are humorous and awe-inspiring, which can't help but make your hair stand on end. According to legend, after this couplet was posted, people were too scared to ask the old barber to shave their heads again.
Lin Zexu, a famous patriotic politician in modern times, could recite poems at the age of seven. One year on New Year's Eve, my father wrote Spring Festival couplets in front of the hall, and just wrote the first couplet: "The moon is unknown on New Year's Eve, count the lights and do it for Kunzhuang"; But I can't think of the next link. At a young age, Lin Zexu swung the drumstick and hit the hall drum three times, and then sang the second couplet loudly: "The new spring thunder hasn't rung, hit three drums and become famous all over the world." The father was overjoyed and even praised his son for his cleverness.
Weng Tonghe, the teacher of Emperor Guangxu, wrote a pair of Spring Festival couplets at 1898: "An old horse thinks a thousand miles; An emu has one foot. " The couplets of Cao Cao's poems and Zhuangzi's Happy Travel show the determination to persist in reform regardless of personal gains and losses.
Lin Shu, a modern translator and writer, wrote a couplet in the Spring Festival of 1924: "It's good to look at the mountains only; It is too difficult to know about the world. " He used implicit language to express his views on reality and expressed his sigh about life.
After the founding of New China, the famous writer Lao She wrote New Spring Festival couplets almost every year, eulogizing the new society and new fashion. Such as: "wine is hot and poetry is strong; Hong Mei Tiandi is new. " "Poetry old year; Raise your glass New Year. " "Diligent housekeeping, be prepared; Serve the country enthusiastically and work hard. " 1962 Spring Festival couplets: "New Year's Eve in beginning of spring; Progress at any time is a thousand dollars. " It not only conforms to the characteristics of the solar terms of the year, but also is full of the flavor of the times.
Zhao Puchu, a calligrapher and Buddhist, is good at writing poems and songs, and his couplets are profound and magnificent. Such as: "Heqing Life Insurance; The wind is big and high. " "Even in this heroic world, dark clouds are full of spring." 1983 wrote Spring Festival couplets: "Two civilizations, spring breeze opens a new chapter in Wan Li; Four principles, Red Sun Qian Shan raises the flag. " It vividly depicts the great historical changes and magnificent prospects of the motherland after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party.
Calligrapher Qi Gong has a pair of Spring Festival couplets: "Flowing water breaks the bridge, and Cao Fang Road breaks the light clouds and light rain to grow flowers. "The words are clear, the sentences are beautiful and poetic, and praise for loyalty, virtue and beautiful environment is expressed by praising spring.
Cang Kejia, a famous contemporary poet and consultant of China Couplet Society, once said, "I hope to have a unique style. I am in the couplet." His self-written Spring Festival couplets are poetic and philosophical, concise and meaningful. Such as: "heavy shoulders; White hair is light. " "Will reach the macro standard; Not counting. "
Chen, a famous scholar in Taiwan Province, has frequently published articles in mainland newspapers in recent years. Such as: "the spring breeze on both sides of the strait melts the rain; Unify the earth and sing. " "Ear meal and peace; I was fascinated by the unified voice. " "Spring scenery, spring breeze, spring rain, Fu Yingchun, cross-strait spring scenery; New things and new businesses, new people and new looks, innovation and innovation, and many new machines for everyone. " They all expressed their sincere desire for cross-strait reunification and the prosperity of the motherland.