(1) The goddess Miao and the female emperor
It is said that there was a pair of goddess sisters in Xuanhua Mansion in the Tang Dynasty. The elder sister is thirteen years old and the younger sister is only nine years old. The two sisters are extremely smart, capable of poetry and good dialogue. One day, the empress Wu Zetian, who loved talent and literature, sent an order to interview the child prodigy. When the two sisters came to the Jinluan Hall, they couldn't help but look around, finding something new and strange everywhere. When Empress Wu saw their clever and childish expressions, she had already been a little fond of them. To prevent them from being afraid, she ordered the palace ceremony to be removed, and kindly held their little hands and walked towards the corridor beside the palace. They came to the bank of the river near the Buddha Hall and saw a monk picking lotus flowers in the river. Empress Wu said to her sister: "I will write a couplet with this title for you." Then she chanted:
Who would wear the lotus that the monk picked from the river?
This couplet uses "river, "He, He and He" are four homophonic words, which is quite difficult. The sister raised her eyes and looked around, and suddenly she heard the strings of Youle Hall playing harp strings and the sound of singing. The reason is the right way:
Play Qing'e's voice on Qing'e's piano strings
This couplet also uses the four homophonic words "Qing, Qin, Qing, Qing", expressing the sincere feelings. scene. Empress Wu was very happy to hear this. Then they passed a screen wall with a relief sculpture of a soldier on it. Wu Hou studied it for a moment, and then came out with another couplet to ask the little sister to answer:
The frozen chariot soldiers smashed the ice and the ice shattered the chariot movement
I saw the nine-year-old little baby blinked three times. Then he wrote the upper and lower couplets:
The dragon is crouching, the dragon is booming, the dragon is booming, and the dragon is rising
When Empress Wu heard this, she unconsciously praised her and said, "You are a child prodigy." Because he thought: Since ancient times, Anbang and Dingguo have mostly been men. If smart girls like this can be carefully nurtured, they will definitely become heroines in the future. So he hugged the little girl and said, "You are talented and clever. If you are guided by a famous teacher, you can become a great hero." I want to stay in your palace for further study, I wonder if you are willing?" The little sister was startled, her face was gloomy, she looked at her elder sister, and immediately lowered her head and said nothing. My sister looked panicked and couldn't reply for a long time. Empress Wu said: "No need to hesitate, you can immediately compose a poem to say goodbye to my sister."
With tears in her eyes, the little sister looked up to the sky and immediately composed a poem:
Sky Clouds Suddenly, swan geese fly together.
The people who complain are like wild geese, and they are not allowed to return together.
I burst into tears after speaking. When Empress Wu saw this, she sighed and said, "Everyone has his or her own ambitions, and their intentions cannot be left behind." She was ordered to send the little sisters home with generous gifts.
(2) Ji Xiaolan’s birthday wish to Qianlong
Qianlong was the longest-lived and longest-reigning emperor in the Qing Dynasty. He became emperor at the age of 25 and lasted for 60 years. He got along with Ji Xiaolan the longest. Ji became his bachelor's student at the age of 20. He often accompanied him to recite poems, write poems, and travel around the mountains and rivers. There were many stories about Qianlong and Ji Xiaolan's poems and songs. Here we introduce the birthday couplet of the second officer Ji Xiaolan commemorating the Qianlong Emperor:
The Imperial Map of Forty Thousand Miles, since ancient times, has never unified the forty thousand miles in one dynasty;
The fifty-year holy birthday, since ancient times, From now on, there are still nine thousand nine hundred and fifty years.
This is dedicated to Qianlong's 50th birthday. The sincerity of the praise and the work of confrontation are unprecedented. The second couplet is to wish an 80-year-old birthday:
Eight thousand is spring, eight thousand is autumn, eight directions are changing, eight winds are in harmony, and the 80th birthday of a saint falls in August;
The five numbers combine with the sky, the five numbers combine with the earth, the five generations live together, the five blessings are ready, and there will be five years in the fifty-song period.
This is a cleverly conceived digital couplet, neat, natural and impeccable.
(3) Number pairs in Zhuge Liang’s life
In the past, some people used numbers to make the first couplet of Zhuge Liang’s life:
Receive two rivers, arrange eight formations, and six will come out Seven captures, in front of the five-foot-long plain, lit forty-nine lanterns, just to reward three visits.
After this couplet was written, no one could correct it for a long time, and it became a famous "absolute". After many years, many people have tried to study it, but to no avail. Until the Qing Dynasty, a scholar named Wu still compared Zhuge Liang's life achievements with the five directions and five elements.
Take Western Shu, determine the southern barbarians, reject the east and north, change the gold, wood, earth and grass hexagrams in the central army tent, and the water surface can be attacked with water.
The "absolute" encounter became a legend.
(4) Yang Guifei’s wonderful encounter with Tang Minghuang
Legend has it that one night, Tang Minghuang and Yang Yuhuan went up to the balcony to admire the moon, and Tang Minghuang recited a couplet at the scene:
< p> The two sat on the groundConcubine Yang was very alert and responded:
In January the sun is bright at the edge
The first couplet recited by Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty is nothing special. Surprisingly, it just splits the word "si" into two characters for "人" and one character for "土"; the next sentence written by Yang Guifei is unusual: both "sun" and "moon" are combined into the character "ming", which is consistent with When asked to leave the couplet, he also used metaphors to compare Emperor Ming to the sun and himself to the moon. The moon can only shine brightly if it relies on the light of the sun, and the concubines can only be favored if they rely on the emperor. They use the scenery to express emotions and try their best to flatter. Things also show his intelligence and agility.
(5) Xie Juezai wrote a couplet to mock the gentleman
Xie Juezai (1884-1971), a native of Ningxiang, Hunan, was a proletarian revolutionary and legal scholar. In July 1905, in the secluded village of Xiaojiawan in Weishan District, Ningxiang County, Hunan, people rushed to tell each other: "Xie Huannan is a scholar!"
Xie Huannan was Xie Juezai's name when he was a teenager. He studied diligently since childhood and was highly praised by his teachers and classmates. At the age of 21, he followed his father's order to take the imperial examination and became the last scholar in China.
Xie Juezai’s father was very proud and decided to hold a few banquets to celebrate.
The Xie family was very lively on this day. There was an endless stream of guests celebrating the occasion, including some gentlemen. My father quickly asked Xie Juezai to come out and accompany the guest. But after searching inside and outside the house, he was nowhere to be seen.
At this time, a gentleman found a couplet posted where the gift was received and hurriedly shouted: "Come and see the couplet!" Everyone ran to take a look and found that it was written by Xie Juezai himself:
After more than ten years of pen dancing and ink singing, I won a scalping vote;
After two or three months of bowing and bowing, I earned a few strings of cash.
This couplet ruthlessly mocked the gentlemen who congratulated them. They suddenly felt like a bucket of cold water was poured on them. They came happy and left disappointed.
It turns out that Xie Juezai hates these gentlemen and is extremely indifferent to the matter of being a scholar. Therefore, when his father held a banquet for him to celebrate, he wrote this couplet to let the gentlemen ask for trouble.
After Xie Juezai became a scholar, he has been unwilling to be an official and engaged in education in his hometown. Later, under the influence of progressive ideas, he embarked on the road of revolution.
(6) Why should officials be managed more?
In the early Qing Dynasty, there was an official named Ren in the south. He often liked to sarcastically discuss the rights and wrongs of government affairs and criticize current ills, which inevitably offended people. Some powerful official families.
One day, the emperor sent a censor named Guan to inspect the place. The local gentleman and wealthy family took the opportunity to maliciously attack the official in charge. Without further investigation, he severely reprimanded the officer in charge: "I heard that you like to teach others, which is not good. Now I have a couplet for you to correct." After that, he read out the first couplet:
It is better not to say what others say and what others say.
Director Ren responded tit-for-tat with the second couplet:
The officials who manage the officials are managed by the officials who manage them, and the officials are managed, so why bother to supervise them.
After hearing this, Guan Yushi was dumbfounded and walked away.
(7) Huitong inlays characters to play with the prefect
During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, Bu Chang, the prefect of Rehe, deceived that there were no talents outside the wall, so he went to the Rehe Poetry Society incognito to provoke trouble. When the two children were at home, Bu Chang ordered them to find the club owner quickly. A child said: "Today we are at home, we have to teach poetry." Bu Chang had no choice but to say:
Two fires are fire. Since it is not the salt of salt sauce, why does it become diluted by adding water?
A child blinked and said with a smile:
The two soils are the guide. Since the turtle is not the tortoise, why add divination as the hexagram.
Another said:
Two days is a prosperous time. Since you are not a prostitute, why do you add your mouth and sing it?
The two children teased Bu Chang about his name, which made him extremely embarrassed. From then on, Bu Chang no longer dared to look down on the literati in Rehe.
(8) There are many joint meetings with Wang Xiangzhang
In today’s world, in the year of reform, efficiency is emphasized everywhere and every second is raced against time. Everyone has opinions and strong opinions on the sea of ??literature and society. It is required to move Wenshan, fill up the sea, and put more time and energy into practical work. However, the leaders of a certain county's agricultural bureau were indifferent and continued to hold general meetings and small meetings one after another. The office staff were so busy that they worked overtime to write materials and print documents, often burning the midnight oil and working at night, which was a great pleasure. The leaders of each township rushed between meetings non-stop. It is the busy season for harvesting and planting, and there is no time to take care of production, so everyone complains again and again. There was a village head, Wang, who was quite talented in literature. He had already expressed his opinions on this, so he wrote a couplet and posted it on the door of the Agricultural Bureau office. This couplet is:
There was a meeting the day before yesterday, a meeting yesterday, a meeting today, a meeting every day;
You speak, I speak, he speaks, everyone speaks.
Hengpi: What to do in the busy autumn season
Although the meaning of this couplet is popular, it is still a bit ironic!
Alas, what makes me sigh is: can modern literati who claim to be extraordinary and who are always moving books write it? !
(9) Digital joint satire on "sycophants"
A certain city launched a crackdown, and the mayor's son was brought to justice for his misdeeds. The mayor's secretary Ma Mou was very busy interceding. This person is considerate, well-rounded, and as smooth as a glass ball. Outsiders call him a "sycophant." While Ma was running around, there was a couplet on his door. This couplet uses many words from mathematics and physics to mock this round and smooth "flattery":
The radius of the curved circle is equal everywhere;
The coefficient of friction is zero at every point.
(10) Children’s Wonderful Answers to the Crooked Poetry Couplet
In the past, the most popular way to study was to write a couplet. The teacher would write the first couplet, and the students would answer the second couplet. The contrast should be neat and smooth and balanced. rhyme. One day, a gentleman surnamed Diao made a crooked couplet:
When you scratch it, you scratch it. If you scratch it, you scratch it. If you don’t scratch it, you won’t itch. If you don’t scratch it, you won’t scratch it. Scratch it and it will itch. Scratch it and scratch it. The more you scratch it, the more it will scratch. The more it itches, the more it itches and scratches.
Let the children be right. The children thought for a long time, but no one came up with the answer. The teacher scolded: "You trash, let's see which boy comes out first!" After hearing this, one boy thought to himself: Just use the word "sir" to answer.
So he stood up and said, "Sir, I'm right!" The gentleman nodded, and Tong Sheng said to him:
Life and death, death and life, life and death, death and life , life and death, life and death, life and death, Mr. dies first, Mr. dies first.
After hearing this, the husband was so angry that he fell down on his chair and was speechless for a long time.
(11) Su Dongpo’s opera couple
Qin Guan and Liu Yong (Tuntian) are both good friends of Su Dongpo. Because Qin Guan's poem "Man Ting Fang" was very well written, especially the first line "Mountain wiped by faint clouds" is a good line, so people at that time called Qin Guan "Mountain wiped by faint clouds", making this sentence Ci became Qin Guan's nickname. Qin Guan's son-in-law Fan Wen was very proud of his father-in-law's name. He often introduced himself as "I am Shanmo Weiyun's son-in-law." People did look at him with envy.
At that time, there was also a famous line "reflection of dew flowers" in Liu Tuntian's poem "Po Zhenzi". Therefore, people at that time also called Liutuntian "the reflection of dew flowers".
(21) Rebuilding Yue Fei’s Tomb
During the ten years of turmoil, Yue Fei Temple could not escape bad luck. Not only was Yue Fei "knocked to the ground", but the temple was also smashed into pieces. In 1977, the Yuemiao Temple was renovated on a larger scale. The statue of Yue Fei sat in the hall again, and the iron statues of the four traitors knelt down at the foot of the steps again. There is an unsigned new couplet that reads:
Seventeen years after the restoration of the mountains and rivers, four disasters suddenly occurred, graves were destroyed and statues were destroyed, and loyal souls suffered catastrophe;
The devil has been wreaking havoc for five years. , Lai Qunying stood up for justice, eliminated evil and punished evil, and the temple and tombs were rebuilt.
This couplet not only tells the story of the catastrophe that Yuemiao suffered for ten years, but also expresses people's memory of the hero. It is really a rare masterpiece.
(22) Sinners have been reviled throughout the ages
Next to the tomb wall in front of Yue’s tomb, facing Yue’s tomb, there were Qin Hui and his wife and their accomplices Wan Qixi and Zhang Jun with their hands clasped behind their backs. The iron statues of historical sinners were imprisoned in iron sheds, with the intention that these treacherous officials who harmed the loyal and good will forever kneel at Yue Fei's feet, bowing their heads and confessing their sins. According to historical records, when the Yuewang Temple was first built, tourists came in large numbers to worship and offer incense, day and night. After the four iron statues were cast and placed, tourists spat on the iron statues of Qin Hui and his wife to show their resentment. Some people also hung up the iron statues of Qin Hui and Wang respectively in the tone of Qin Hui and Wang's regrets and mutual complaints. Two couplets:
Qin Hui: "Ahem! The servant is heartbroken, how can he be a good wife?"
Wang: "Spit! Even though a woman has a long tongue, she is not an old thief. To this day!"
This couplet is written in a humorous and humorous way, vividly depicting the ugly mental state of the two historical sinners at that time and that place.
(23) Prodigy pair
Wang Yucheng, a famous poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, was a very smart and talented person. He could write poems at the age of 6 and he could write poems at the age of 7. Article, people call him a prodigy.
One day, the prefect of the county held a banquet for guests. The guests and friends gathered together, and it was very lively. At this time, Wang Yucheng, as the "little friend" of the prefect, sat down with the people. At the banquet, the county governor was very happy and wrote a couplet for everyone to answer:
A parrot can speak as hard as a phoenix
After saying this sentence, all the guests began to jump up and down. People racked their brains and racked their brains to figure out whether it was right. However, after a long time, no one could get it right. After a while, some sour scholars with "sharp mouths, thick skin, but hollow bellies" made some unreasonable sentences to each other. The county governor listened and shook his head in denial. Then he urged the guests , keep going. The guests still couldn't think of a good match, which disappointed the prefect. At this time, Xiao Wang Yuchen had already made up his mind, so he said loudly with an innocent and childish voice like a bell: "I'm right." When the guests followed the voice and saw that it was a child, they couldn't help but shout A burst of contemptuous laughter.
However, Wang Yuchen calmly wrote the second line:
Although spiders are not as clever as silkworms
Suddenly, the four people were talking and admiring. sound.
(24) Sun Shadow and Human Shadow
There was a famous prime minister Kou Zhun in the Northern Song Dynasty. He was capable of literary and military skills, and was upright and loyal. History has recorded his achievements, as well as his story about pairs.
It is said that one day, he and several people were chatting at the pavilion. This pavilion is on the edge of the pool. It's almost noon, and the sun is reflected in the water. Kou Zhun wrote a couplet for them to correct:
The sun under the water is the sun in the sky
The meaning is very simple and clear, but no one can get it right for the moment. When I asked Kou Zhun, he smiled and didn't answer. By coincidence, Yang Danian came to report something to Lord Kou and found him here. Yang Danian is an expert in pairs. When he came, he seemed to have solved the problem for everyone. Everyone asked him to find out the pair first.
Kou Zhun told him the sentence. I thought about it on New Year's Eve, the prime minister was talking about the shadow of the sun, what other shadows are there? Yes, a human figure. He looked into Lord Kou's eyes, and suddenly found his own figure in them, and immediately said:
The person in your eyes is the person in front of you
Kou Zhun praised him: "What a great year. He is so clever!"
(25) "Portrait"
Yan Shu in the Northern Song Dynasty was a great poet. After he became a high official, he had two penmasters, one Zhang Kang and the other Wang. Qi. The two of them look very different. Zhang Kang was a fat man, covered in fat from head to toe, so Wang Qi always called him "Fat Cow".
Zhang Kang, in turn, called Wang Qi a "skinny monkey". Most people could be twice as "skinny" as Zhang Kang, not to mention Wang Qi is really a scrawny person. The two have a good relationship, but they make fun of each other regardless of the occasion. Once, Yan Shu invited guests. Everyone was in the mood for drinking. Wang Qi put down his chopsticks, stretched out his index fingers on both hands, and said with a smile:
Zhang Kang touched the wall and formed a figure of eight
The cow's head hit. On the wall, the two horns are separated to both sides to form an "eight" shape. Wang Qi said that Zhang Kang was a "fat cow" and was divided into "eight" characters when he hit the wall. When everyone heard this, they laughed. Zhang Kang did not show weakness, and immediately thought of the ancient poem "The ape cries three times and sheds tears on the clothes", and retorted:
Wang Qi looked at the moon and cried three times
Everyone burst into laughter. Looking at the "fat cow", I thought about the phrase "formed into eight characters"; I looked at the "skinny monkey" and thought about the phrase "call three times". The more I thought about it, the more ridiculous it became.
On one occasion, Su Dongpo drank at the same table as Qin Guan and Liu Tuntian. When he was half drunk, Su Dongpo became very popular in poetry and casually linked their names and nicknames into a couplet:
The mountain wipes the clouds and the bachelor of Qin;
The dew flowers reflect Liu Tuntian .
When Qin and Liu heard this, they laughed together and were deeply impressed by Dongpo's witty talent.
(12) Su Dongpo mocked Zhang Sanying
Northern Song Dynasty poet Zhang Xian, whose courtesy name was Ziye, liked to write slow poems, and his poems were good at describing the love between men and women. He once received the nickname "Zhang Sanying" for his three unique sentences: "The clouds break through the moon and the flowers make shadows", "The curtains curl up and the flowers make shadows", and "The light catkins fall without shadows". After he retired to the countryside in his later years, when he was over eighty, he still had a singing prostitute in his family. Once, Su Dongpo visited him and gave him a couplet to mock Zhang Xian. The couplet reads:
The poet is old and the Yingying is still there;
The prince is back and Yan Yan is busy.
The couplet quoted the story of "The Legend of Yingying" by Yuan Zhen of the Tang Dynasty (which developed into the opera "The Romance of the West Chamber" in the Yuan Dynasty), comparing Zhang Xian to Zhang Gong, a flirtatious scholar. Zhang Xian got the couplet and also made a couplet and wrote:
Sorrow is like a solemn fish knowing that the night will last forever;
Laziness is like a butterfly busy in spring.
This couplet expresses one's self, and its rhyme and lyrics are excellent, which was deeply appreciated by Dongpo.
(13) Foyin and Su Xiaomei play together
Su Dongpo and Foyin talked about Buddhist affairs, and Foyin boasted about the boundless power of Buddha and the boundless Dharma. Su Xiaomei, Su Dongpo's sister, was eavesdropping behind the curtain and wanted to stab him, so she wrote a couplet and asked the maid to take it out and give it to Su Dongpo. When Su Dongpo saw it, he said: "Interesting, interesting!" Listen to the Buddha's Seal:
No one can become a Buddha even if he was once a monk.
Seeing that Foyin was making fun of himself, how could he be willing to admit defeat? After some thinking, he finally came to terms with this split word couplet. I wrote it out and gave it to Dongpo. After reading it, Su Xiaomei gave it to Su Xiaomei. Su Xiaomei read it and said:
A woman is humbled as a maid, and a woman can be called a slave.
One day, Su Xiaomei was reciting poems against Su Dongpo. Unexpectedly, Foyin came in, and she hurriedly hid in the tent. When Foyin saw this, he wrote a couplet:
A beautiful woman is sitting in a blue gauze tent, with peonies in a gauze cage.
The little girl thought: This monk is really annoying. The brother and sister were having an interesting conversation, but you broke them up and you still recited poems to tease me. Okay, wait until I reply and scold you. So, he recited:
The monk was washing by the clear pool, and the gourd was soaked in the water.
"The gourd is soaked in water!" Su Dongpo clapped his hands and praised it. Foyin could only touch his bald head and smile bitterly.
(14) Dongpo satirized the host
One day, Su Dongpo visited a temple and heard that the abbot monk in the temple had misbehaved, which made him feel disgusted. But the host was very respectful to the famous Su Dongpo, entertained him very well, and shamelessly asked Su Dongpo for a favor. Su Dongpo held the pen in his hand and wrote a couplet in a hurry:
When the sunset fades and the incense fades, remove a little of your ordinary mind;
When the fire is gone and the furnace is cold, come and tie the horse of your mind tightly.
The host hung the couplet high, and many literati laughed when they saw it. It turns out that this couplet tells two crossword puzzles, and the answer is "bald donkey".
(15) Master Diao was too sentimental
Once upon a time, a certain member of the imperial family had a daughter and a son, and the daughter was about to be married. My son is still young and studying in a private school. The teachers at that school were naughty and often left homework for the students and then went out to wander around. One day, he wrote a couplet to his students:
A guest came to the hall, awakening thousands of miles of spring dreams.
The student couldn't get along, so he asked his sister to help him, and the sister said:
It's all in vain to have no one to sleep on.
When the school teacher came back and asked, he knew that the sister and brother were right, so he thought that the young lady was interested in him, so he added:
Six feet of silk, three feet tied around the waist, Three feet down.
After looking at it, the lady wrote:
A quilt, half of which covers the body, and half of which is free.
When the private school teacher saw it, he thought that the young lady was undoubtedly interested in him, so he wanted to make a commitment to the young lady immediately. I wrote another couplet nakedly:
The wind is tight and the forest is dense, I asked the woodcutter where to start.
The young lady saw that the tutor had evil intentions and immediately reprimanded him sternly:
The mountains are high and the water is deep, so I advise the fisherman to turn back as soon as possible.
The private school teacher looked at it and felt a chill in his heart, but he did not give up and continued to insist on the couplet:
Peach, plum, apricot and plum, when will these flowers bloom?
The lady replied rudely:
Rice, wheat, millet and millet, this bastard is Mr. He.
At this point, the private school teacher had nothing to do, but he was always angry and unjust in his heart. Soon, he watched the young lady get married. A year later, the young lady gave birth to male twins and returned to her parents' home for the full moon. The master Diao came up to her, pointed at the twins and teased the young lady, saying:
Who is the first son, and which one is the second?
As soon as the young lady heard that the tutor made dirty words again, she broke her face and said with a straight face:
The younger generation is my son, and the husband is my son.
(16) Su Dongpo's wonderful couplets about famous doctors
Su Dongpo not only had great achievements in literature, but also had high attainments in medicine, and was known as "Confucian doctor". When he was the prefect of Hangzhou, he devoted himself to medical research. At that time, plagues often occurred in the area, and many people died. In order to free the common people from the painful disease, Su Dongpo spent dozens of taels of gold from his salary and built a clinic called "Anle" in the city, specializing in treating people. He was cured within three years. Nearly a thousand patients.
It is said that there is Pangjiazhuang in the west of Hangzhou. The owner of the village is named Pang Anshi. He likes to socialize, recite poems, and talk about the past and present. As a result, he had a close relationship with Su Dongpo. They often talked about poetry and discussed medicine together.
One day, Su Dongpo was sitting in his study reading medical books when the yamen servant outside came to report: "Your Majesty, Pang, a Chinese medicine doctor outside the mansion, is asking for a visit." Su Dongpo hurriedly said, "I'm welcome." Dr. Pang, led by the yamen servant, came to the door of the study. He raised his head and saw two new lanterns hanging beside the door. He couldn't help but become inspired by poetry and casually recited a couplet:
Lanterns, lanterns, lanterns, It turns out that the paper (citrus aurantium) shell only protects against the wind;
Su Dongpo just walked out the door. After listening to it, he pondered for a while and immediately understood it, and then continued the second line:
Drum stand, tangerine peel Can't knock half a beat (summer).
The two looked at each other, laughed, and walked into the backyard hand in hand. There was a small garden in the center of the yard. When Dr. Pang saw the lush green bamboos growing in the garden, he had an idea and exclaimed:
Light bamboo leaves are best for heat stroke;
Su Dongpo said casually Said:
Bupleurum is especially good for typhoid fever.
The two sat down by the garden. The yamen servant handed them fragrant tea, and they drank tea and chatted. They talked about famous poems and famous doctors, and also talked about medicine from couplets. They really met each other and became close friends. Suddenly, a breeze blew by, bringing with it the fragrance of flowers. Dr. Pang looked up and saw that the roses in the garden were in full bloom, charming and charming. He was moved by the scene and wrote another couplet:
The roses bloomed and the fragrance could be smelled for miles around;
Su Dongpo heard him recite another couplet and blurted out without thinking:
Wutongzi is big, take fifty or sixty pills a day.
Pang Anshi sat for a while, said goodbye, and casually wrote another couplet:
There are relatives everywhere in China, no matter where they were born or familiar.
Su Dongpo replied with a smile:
When the spring breeze comes, all the flowers are blooming, but you can smell the fragrance of rugosa and wood.
The "citrus aurantium, windbreak, tangerine peel, pinellia, bamboo leaves, bupleurum, rose, sycamore, raw rehmannia, rehmannia glutinosa, rugosa, and woody scent" in the couplet are all Chinese medicine names. The couplets are neatly, harmoniously and full of fun.
(17) How did Taofu come from
Couplets are also called Taofu, which is a myth that originated in ancient times. Legend has it that there is a mountain called Dushuo in the vast sea, and there is a big peach tree on the mountain. This peach tree covers the sky and the earth, with branches twisting for 3,000 miles. In the northeast, there is a place where peach branches are sparse, forming a gate called the "Ghost Gate". All the "ghosts" in the world come in and out from here and are inspected. There are two gods guarding the door here, one is called Tu (yin Shu, shū) and the other is named Yu Lei (yin Yuli, yùlì). They are two brothers who both have the ability to identify "good ghosts" and "evil ghosts". Whenever they saw "evil ghosts" who were unreasonable and specialized in causing harm to people, they would tie them up with reed ropes and feed them to tigers. Because these two brothers can help people exorcise ghosts and ward off evil spirits, it is said that since the time of the Yellow Emperor, people have nailed peach boards on their doors and painted images of the two gods. These are the door gods. Around the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period or earlier, some people no longer painted door gods and just wrote the names of the two gods on peach boards. But on one side there is one word "Te" and on the other side there are two words "Yulei", which is asymmetrical and unsightly, so just add the word "神" in front of it, and it becomes: Yulei Shen Tea
"Yulei; Shentu" can be regarded as the earliest pair of famous people (gods). This is the "Taofu". Its appearance is a crucial step in producing couplets. Later, auspicious words were used to replace the names of the two gods, and ordinary wooden boards (or red paper) were used to replace the peach boards, thus completing the evolution of the couplets. At this time, we got rid of the myths of the past and moved towards real life.
However, until today, people still call Spring Festival couplets (or couplets) Taofu; and the "story of Taofu" will probably never be finished!
(18) Divide the characters into pairs
Mo Xuanqing of the Tang Dynasty was from Fengchuan (now Fengkai, Guangdong). At the age of 17, he became the first number one scholar in Guangdong and Guangxi, and was known as one of the "Eight Great Talents in Lingnan". When he was 7 years old, he wrote a poem expressing his ambition:
There are many handsome men in the world, who can help the sage?
My Lingnan wind is no different from other birds.
So he is called a child prodigy.
There was a county magistrate named Liang who was passing by Fengchuan and wanted to see how "magical" this child prodigy was, so he went to Mo's house. As soon as someone shouted, "Master Liang is here!", Mo Xuanqing politely came out to greet him and gave him a big salute. Liang Zhixian asked: "Are you the famous Mo family son?" Mo Xuanqing replied: "Yes, sir." When the Zhixian heard this, I gave you a "famous son", and you "accepted" him without giving in at all. Then he wrote a first couplet and asked him:
How can a child on the 20th be called a big man?
This is a combination of the three characters "twenty", "日" and "大". "Mo". Mo Xuanqing thought to himself: It's not me who said "famous", why are you ridiculing me? That's right, the second line:
Three ounces of wood cannot become an official
This is to split the word "Liang" into "three" and "edge" (commercially speaking, "two" (vulgar writing), "wood". The county magistrate knew from this that the child was really smart, and told everyone he met that Mo Xuanqing was really "famous".
(19) Couple of Yue Tombs in West Lake
On January 27, 1142, Yue Fei was killed by Emperor Gaozong and Qin Hui on "unfounded" charges at the foot of Jiuqu City outside Qiantang Gate in Hangzhou. Near the Wuxian Shrine, Emperor Xiaozong of the Song Dynasty was buried at the foot of Qixialing with ceremony. This is the Yue Tomb on the edge of the West Lake. There is this couplet in front of Yue's tomb:
Good and evil have been the same as charcoal since ancient times.
Reputation and reputation are now judged as false and true.
This couplet clearly expresses the different attitudes of the people towards Yue Fei and Qin Hui.
Another couplet on both sides of the gate of the Yuewang Temple is:
The green mountains are fortunate to bury loyal bones,
White iron casts innocent ministers into sycophants.
It is said that this couplet was written by a woman named Xu. She expressed her respect for Yue Fei and her hatred for Qin Hui through personification and contrast.
(20) Teacher and student admiring the moon at night
Li Qunyu of the Tang Dynasty was a very famous talent. His poems had beautiful artistic conception. When he was a child, he was familiar with poems and books, and often spent time with his teacher. They recited poems together and made pairs. The teacher liked his smart and studious spirit very much and often gave him advice.
One day, the teacher and the student went out for a walk together. As they walked on the path under the bright moon, they heard the sound of temple bells in the distance. There are bamboo groves on both sides of the path. From time to time, bursts of flower fragrance float from the bamboo grove. In this quietness, the teacher is full of poetry and recites a couplet:
The wind blows and the bells sound among the flowers, which are fragrant and sweet. Xiang
Li Qunyu was also fascinated by the surrounding scenery. When he heard the teacher's couplet, he looked around and saw the bright moon's light as bright as water. Fireflies flew from time to time in the bamboo forests on both sides of the path. The light of fireflies It flickers on and off, disappearing and appearing, so he immediately said to him:
The moon shines brightly on the bamboo bank of the firefly lamp, bright and cool
The couplet of the upper and lower sentences cleverly makes the moon shine down. The scenery is painted so that people feel like they are there. It is really a wonderful picture.