Five wonderful couplet stories

Lianlian couplet is a method of making couplets, also called thimble grid and Lianzhu method. The syllables or sentences in the couplet are connected from beginning to end, and are connected from front to back, producing the effect of passing up and connecting down, just like stringing beads. Very interesting to read. Such as "Broken bridges continue; the remaining snow and snow are not broken." "The fishes are fishing and the fishes are frightened; the whips and whips are frightening." "The fires are burning and the sticks are burning; the ferryboats are ferrying the ferrymen." "The water is frozen and covered with ice and snow, adding insult to injury; The sky is filled with mist and clouds, and the clouds are opening to see the sun."...and so on. Another example:

Tianxin Pavilion, pigeons have fallen in the pavilion, but pigeons have not flown in the pavilion;

There are water and land, the island stops the boat, the boat moves and the island does not move.

This is a popular couplet in Changsha, Hunan. The couplet uses a variety of techniques such as Dingzhen and homonyms. The couplets include "gege", "gege", "zhouzhou", "Zhouzhou" is the most authentic, and "Geige" and "zhouzhou" have the same pronunciation (or homophony), which is quite original.

There is such a story: It is said that a lady of the country, who was beautiful and talented in literature, was determined to marry a talented man. The condition was that as long as her first couplet matched, no matter whether she was rich or poor. She posted the first couplet outside the door of the prime minister's house: An inch of land is a temple, and a poem is written beside the temple. The poem says, "The bright moon sends the monks back to the ancient temple;" This first couplet uses more techniques, such as Dingzhen, split characters, and collection of sentences. "Temple" and "Poetry" are the most true. At the same time, "Temple" and "Poetry" are both formed by the combination of the two preceding words. In the last sentence of the Tang poem, "Moon" is separated from the word "Ming". , very difficult. A scholar surnamed Lin wrote the second couplet and posted it in the Prime Minister's Mansion: Two trees form a forest, and there is a prohibition under the forest. The prohibition goes, "The ax can enter the forest at the right time." Miss Xiangguo saw it and was very satisfied, so they got married to her.

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I am a guest in nature, but I am a guest in heaven.

Among the couplets, the most representative one is Wu Wenzhi’s couplet to guests. It is said that Wu Wenzhi was able to write poems when he was young. One day, a visitor at home came out and said: mulberry and silkworms are raising silkworms, silkworms are spinning cocoons, cocoons are spinning silk, and silk is becoming beautiful. Wu Wenzhi said: "The grass hides the rabbit, and the rabbit produces hair, and the hair is used to write a pen." The guests were amazed.

Guan Yunchang, the famous general of the Three Kingdoms, has been famous among the people for thousands of years. Guandi temples can be found everywhere. Taking Beijing as an example, the most numerous temples are Guandi temples. There were more than 200 Guan temples in and around Beijing during the Qing Dynasty, accounting for one-tenth of the total temples in Beijing. There are countless Guandi temples in other places, and the Guandi temple couplets also have their own characteristics. Xiangtan City Guansheng Temple Couplet:

A horse beheaded Yan Liang, and all the heroes in Hebei were frightened;

Single sword to Lu Su, all the scholars in Jiangnan bowed their heads.

This couplet highlights Guan Yu's brave and competitive character. Zuo Zongtang once wrote the couplet of Guan Temple in Changde:

Historical policy has not been seen for thousands of years. The great sage Wen Xuan was succeeded at the top, and Gu Zhong was promoted by Wu Mu at the bottom. His majesty will last forever, and he will be the role model of Yilun for the rest of his life;

The place is hundreds of miles apart, connected to the old seal of Hanshou in the west and the old base of Yiyang in the east. The British style is still there, just like when the soldiers and horses passed the mountain.

The first couplet says that Guan Yu succeeded Wenxuan Great Sage (Confucius) and Wu Mu (Yue Fei) below; the second couplet combines the geographical situation with Guan Yu's career, which is very distinctive.

There is a Guandi Temple on Liupan Mountain in Ningxia. Its temple couplet advises people to live sincerely:

People who worship this person want to learn from this person, and don’t kowtow to him;

To enter this mountain, you must leave this mountain, and you should carefully examine your heart.

This couplet calls on people to learn from Guan Yu’s moral character and not to be hypocritical. A temple couplet of Emperor Guan in Taiwan uses the word "loyalty" to give a high-level summary of Guan Yu's life:

Yiyong soared into the clouds, and he became a brother and brother;

Loyalty Through the moon, the emperor and king of Qianqiu.

Hang a couplet in the living room, which can reflect the owner’s interests, hobbies and character. After the patriotic educator Cai Yuanpei was promoted to Jinshi, he served in the Hanlin Academy. He once posted a couplet in his apartment:

There is no official intention;

Only the sound of reading.

Mr. Cai is not pretending to be noble. He has seen through the darkness and corruption of officialdom and is willing to indulge in the sound of books.

The famous poet Lu You of the Southern Song Dynasty also spent his youth surrounded by the sound of reading. His study couplet is:

Thousands of volumes of ancient and modern books disappear forever;

The dusk of a window sends the fleeting years away.

The famous painter and writer Feng Zikai wrote a couplet for his study room in "Yuanyuan Hall":

The stars are turning in the galaxy world;

The Sun and Moon Tower The sun and the moon are long in the middle.

The study couplet should be just right and should not be boastful. Otherwise, it will make people laugh. Yuan Mei, a talented scholar in the Qing Dynasty, lived in Suiyuan and once hung a couplet in his study:

This place has high mountains, steep ridges, dense forests and bamboos;

It is possible to read three tombs, Wudian, Basuo, Jiuqiu.

The so-called "Three Tombs", "Five Codes" and "Nine Hills" are all legendary ancient books that have long been lost. How can Yuan Mei read them? Yuan Mei's friend Wang Kefu heard this and came to ask him to borrow the ancient book. He knew he was ashamed and quickly removed the couplet.

Many bedroom couplets are expressions of personal likes and dislikes. Yu Dafu's former residence couplet:

Being away from customs is due to laziness;

Selling articles is selling books.

The famous historian Fan Wenlan once had a couplet in his home:

The bench will be cold for ten years,

The article will not be empty.

This couplet has simply become Mr. Fan’s motto.

There is a quack doctor in a certain place who is ignorant and often kills people. Someone wrote a couplet and posted it on his door:

It may not turn into something bad;

How has he ever come back from the dead?

The upper and lower couplets each use an idiom, but one word is omitted, which is really a witty phrase.

During the Republic of China, a couplet was widely circulated:

Ten thousand taxes in the Republic of China;

The world is too poor.

Using the homophony of "tax" and "year", and "poverty" and "ping", it ruthlessly satirizes the social situation at that time when there were many excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the people were living in dire straits.

In the annual imperial examination in the Qing Dynasty, the question used the sentence "I am ignorant, I am thinking about it" from "The Great Learning". One candidate had poor eyesight and regarded "ambiguity" as "sister". The grader didn't find it funny after reading it, so he wrote out a comment that perfectly matched the examinee's question:

Sister, I'm thinking about it;

Brother, you are wrong.

In ancient times, there was a scholar who was lame. His father-in-law disliked him and never let him in. One year, the son-in-law actually passed the exam to become a scholar. The father-in-law invited his son-in-law to dinner. During the dinner, he made a couplet to ridicule his son-in-law:

A good son-in-law is in vain, the road is bumpy, one step up, one step down;

Unfortunately, my father-in-law is one-eyed. The son-in-law took advantage of the topic and laughed at his father-in-law:

Taishan misunderstood, the world is hot and cold, so he turned a blind eye or closed a blind eye.

In January 1933, the Red Army arrived at Fengxianggou in Sichuan. The local folks beat gongs and drums to welcome the Red Army. Someone wrote a couplet dedicated to the Red Army:

The Red Army arrived, and the reactionaries fled. The local tyrants and evil gentry hide their cats, and the cats say wonderful things;

The music of the Soviet area is full of folk songs, the people are happy, the horses are croaking, and the cocks are crowing.

This is an onomatopoeic couplet. The first couplet uses the sound of a cat to praise the arrival of the Red Army and the escape of the reactionaries; the second couplet uses the sound of a chicken to illustrate the happy scene in the Soviet area.

There is also an onomatopoeic couplet, which is also very interesting:

The mountain boy picks chestnuts and picks them up in a basket, splitting them and throwing them on the bamboo;

The old man in the wild buys water chestnuts and carries them to the basket. Falling down, the cage is empty.

Lianzhong is full of life interest and is a kind of good-natured teasing.

One year of study, eight drops of money, hard work, spring, summer, autumn and winter.

As the saying goes, "If you have five buckets of rice at home, you will not be the king of dolls." This shows how difficult it was for people to be private school teachers in China in the old days. The second line of the second line expresses their hard work all year round.

On the contrary, there are also couplets that express happiness all year round:

Looking up at the fairyland, Bai Yexian, Lin Yexian, Su Yexian, I am drunk in the lake and mountains today, I am not a fairy. Immortal;

The place where you can enjoy yourself in time, you will be happy in spring, happy in summer, and happy in autumn. When winter comes, you will find snow and wind in the snow, and you will be happy even if you are not happy.

This is the couplet of "Xianle Restaurant" in West Lake. The upper couplet is marked with "Xian". Bai, Lin and Su respectively refer to Li Bai, Lin Bu and Su Shi. The lower couplet is marked with "乐". A vivid picture of the four seasons.

It is said that an old man with a long beard once left a couplet, and Jin Shengtan wrote in the second couplet:

Young and old, go up and down the streets, walking south to north to buy things;

Young old man, Sit on a couch and read Spring and Autumn from winter to summer.

Li Tiaoyuan, the opera theorist and writer of the Qing Dynasty, was in couplet with his wife. When his wife got into trouble, Li Tiaoyuan responded:

The moon is full and the moon is waning, the moon is waning and the moon is full, the year is Year after year, there is twilight and morning, and the sun can only be seen at the end of the night;

Flowers bloom and fall, flowers fall, flowers bloom, summer, summer, autumn, summer and cool, and spring begins after the harsh winter.

There is a couplet that urges people not to forget about hard work all year round, which is very interesting:

With the flow of goods from south to north, east towns and west markets have become;

Plowing in the spring and hoeing in the summer will make the seedlings grow, and only then can harvest be harvested in autumn and stored in winter.

It is also unique to combine various colors into a couplet. Please look at this Guandi temple couplet:

With a red face and a red heart, riding a red rabbit to chase the wind, never forgetting the Red Emperor when galloping;

Looking at the history of the past with a green lantern, fighting against the blue dragon gnawing at the moon, The hidden place is worthy of the blue sky.

Although the characters "红" and "青" overlap four times in the couplet, they appear smooth and natural.

Going eastward along the Yangtze River, the heroes of all ages have been swept away by waves. I wonder where the green mountains and white clouds outside the building are, where is the Tang Palace and the Han Palace?

Spring comes back in the small garden, and the orioles evoke a beautiful garden. They look at the green trees by the pool and the red leaves on the trees. Among them are Yao, Sun and Sun.

This is a couplet from the Jinling and Ming Dynasties written by Xu Da, who once served as the master of Lake Mochou. The couplet compares Zhu Yuanzhang to the ancient Yao and Shun. Although there are some beautiful words, this couplet is like a beautiful prose. , blue, white, green and red are dotted among them, but they are also extremely gorgeous. There is also a strange couplet:

Guan Gong rides across Red Cliff, red! red! red!

The filial son herds sheep on the snow-capped mountains, white! white! white!

The first half of this couplet is a metaphor, and the last half of the couplet is overlapped with three "red" and "white" to make the colors more vivid.

The ancient flowers are already popular with the ancient people;

Today’s flowers are still popular with the modern people.

There are many couplets in the vast couplet gardens in our country. Almost all natural flowers can be found in the couplets, and many of them are sentimental and interesting. Someone collected ancient poems as a couplet to describe today's good times:

The grass is green again in spring;

Apricot blossoms are still red for ten miles.

Some people use Chinese medicine to make a pair, one strong and one soft, one literary and one military, a perfect pair and full of interest:

Pulsatilla rides a seahorse and wears a pangolin;

The red lady wore honeysuckle on her head before riding in the carriage.

There are many ingenious pairs in "Flower couplet". For example:

Paint lotus and monk painting;

The book is written in Han Dynasty and Hanlin Book.

The words "Shang, Shang, He, He" and "Lin, Lin, Han, Han" in the couplet have similar pronunciations, which can be read upside down and are endlessly interesting. A couplet written by Xie Jin is even better. Lian Yun:

Plum leaves, peach leaves and grape leaves are herbaceous and woody;

Plum blossoms, osmanthus and roses are fragrant in spring and autumn.

He used pu and peach, which are homophones for grapes, and plum and cinnamon, which are homophones for roses.

The bile vase has four branches of flowers cut diagonally: apricot, peach, pear, and plum;

The hand scroll has a scroll hanging horizontally: pine, bamboo, plum, and orchid.

This couplet mentions six kinds of flowers at once: apricot blossom, peach blossom, pear blossom, plum blossom, plum blossom and orchid. But there are more than that, please see:

The emperor's daughter rejoices, the narcissus smiles;

The morning glory greets the chariot, and the delphinium soars into the sky.

The eight flower names written in the couplet are also herbal names. It is rare to string them together, especially "Albizia", ??"Hanxiao", "Yingchaan" and "Lingxiao" are used as verbs. , is even more sublime.

The sound of firecrackers changes the year of the world;

The plum blossoms at four or five o'clock make the whole world spring.

A few plum blossoms and a few firecrackers are vivid and colorful, adding a lot of color to the New Year. It is really a pair of plum blossom couplets. There have always been many wonderful couplets about plum blossoms. For example, Xu Xiake wrote a couplet in Xiaoxiangshan Plum Blossom Hall:

Spring is as beautiful as vanilla for thousands of years;

People are as clear as plum blossoms.

Compared with plum blossoms, the style is clear and beautiful, which can be called a famous couplet. Later generations also wrote a couplet about the Shi Kefa ancestral hall on Meihua Ridge in Yangzhou:

He died in Sheji in the ancient city north of the Yangtze River, with water and mountains left, and strong grass in the wind still left;

Buried The clothes and hats are made of Huainan soil, with a heart of ice and iron bones, which are good companions to the plum blossoms on the mountains.

Writing history, Kefa sacrificed his life for the country, and was praised by future generations like "the strong grass in the wind" and "the plum blossoms on the mountains".

Among the couplets praising plum blossoms, the most popular is the couplet in support of Premier Zhou. Premier Zhou's achievements in life were as high as the sky, he was upright and his heart was as noble as a plum blossom, and he was admired by all generations. Lian Yun:

Mountain Tai meets the moon first by the sea;

The Winter Plum Blossom Festival is the windiest.

Among the couplet families in our country, the couplets related to the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar are quite rare, but most of them are wonderful. For example, this one:

The spring equinox in February, the autumnal equinox in August, and the day and night are neither long nor short;

Three years, one leap five years, and then there will be no mistakes in yin and yang.

The first couplet of this solar term couplet not only specifies the months (lunar calendar) where the two solar terms, the vernal equinox and the autumnal equinox, are located, but also clearly explains the time characteristics of these two months - day and night are equal. The second line, from a different perspective, expresses the regularity of leap years in the lunar calendar, and its scientific nature is beyond doubt. Another couplet is even more wonderful:

Frost falls like light snow;

The spring equinox is not too cold.

This couplet has only 10 characters, but it contains four solar terms. The names of the two solar terms in the first couplet are connected with the word "ru", which becomes "there are in the couplet" "Scenery" allows people to appreciate a "frost morning picture" in autumn and winter; the word "bu" in the middle of the second line is used very cleverly, connecting it with the great cold behind it, accurately and vividly describing the climate characteristics of the spring equinox, which changes from warm to cold. Depicted. There is another couplet that has the same purpose as this couplet:

The weather is very cold, frost falls on the eaves and turns into light snow;

The Dragon Boat Festival is in the sun, and the Double Ninth Festival appears under the water during the Qingming Festival.

There is also a kind of solar term couplet in ancient my country. Although the name of the solar term is not embedded in the couplet, every stroke is related to the solar term. This is the "couplet to relieve the cold and welcome the Spring Festival". For example:

The old city is deserted in autumn, and the trees on the fence are withered and flourishing;

The courtyard is quiet in spring, and the alleys are covered with grass.

The flowing spring behind the house swallows sweet herbs;

The weeping willows in front of the courtyard cherish the spring breeze.

The exquisite and dense shade of secluded cypresses sends off the remaining autumn;

The light and fragrant tea of ??soft willows greets the coming of spring.

Each word of these couplets has nine strokes, and the upper and lower couplets each have 81 strokes. The writing method is to start from the winter solstice (the first day of the "National Day") every day, and the upper and lower couplets are written every day. Write one stroke each, and finish writing on the 81st day of the month, which happens to be the spring equinox. At this time, the entire couplet is completed, and the cold has disappeared and spring has arrived, so it is called "the couplet to eliminate the cold and welcome the Spring Festival".

Poetry and wine have an indissoluble bond. Li Bai said that he had "hundred poems about wine fighting". Although this is a bit exaggerated, it also illustrates the relationship between poetry and wine. Couplets and wine are equally intimate. Liquor Union has a long history in our country. There are too many to name a good couplet. Cao Cao has long had a famous saying, "Drinking wine and singing, how much life will bring", which shows the broad-mindedness of a hero in troubled times. Drinking for fun should be done in moderation. "The drunkard's intention is not to drink." Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, is famous all over the world for his work poems. His addiction to alcohol is well-known in ancient and modern times, and he has always been known as the "Drinking Immortal". "I raise a glass to the bright moon at the foot of the steps; I stroll along the fence to admire the blooming flowers.

"There is not a word "wine" in the couplet, but it is a wine couplet, and it belongs to the dark and bright inlay pattern in the couplets. The upper couplet is implicit, and the lower couplet is inlaid with the word "wine". " is the word. Therefore, Wang Youcai, a modern man, wrote a couplet on Taibai Tower in Caishiji, Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province: "We should drink wine here; sir, please do not write poems here." ”

Some wine couplets, in addition to indicating the business nature of some hotels, pubs, and wineries, mostly praise wine. Some wine couplets are not only appropriate in content, but also in expression techniques. It is also very clever. It is said that Tang Bohu, a talented man from the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty, once recited a couplet when he was having a drink with his friends: "Jia Dao was not drunk for a long time; Liu Ling drank all the wine without leaving any trace." "This couplet does not have the word "wine", but a discerning person will know that it is a drinking couplet. Jia Dao in the first couplet is a famous "examination" poet in the late Tang Dynasty, and the couplet is homophonic to "false pour" after his name. , describing the state of drunkenness after drinking, Liu Ling in the second couplet is one of the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove" in the Western Jin Dynasty. He is famous for his alcoholism. He once wrote "Ode to the Virtue of Wine" with a homonym of his name to describe the banquet. "When you meet a close friend, a thousand cups are too little", the scene of the guest and host drinking happily, with no trace left in the glass, is a natural homophonic, elegant and interesting, and full of fun.

Some wine couplets are mostly embellished with allusions, which are light. Expressive, bright and subtle, such as: "Liu Ling asked me whose house is good; Li Bai also said that this place is good. "In front of the painted building is the bank of willows; the green curtain hangs high in the apricot flower village." "Who can ask Quanxiang?" The wine is waiting for you to taste. "Liu Ling and Li Bai were famous wine-loving literati in ancient times; "Yangliu Bank" is a famous line in Liu Yong's poem; "Xinghua Village" comes from a poem by Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty: "May I ask where the restaurant is? The shepherd boy refers to Xinghua Village. "Xiangquan" and "Jiu Lie" can be seen in "The Drunkard Pavilion" by Ouyang Xiu, a writer of Song Dynasty.

There are also wine couplets that talk about the power of wine and are very humorous. For example: “A person who is drunk after three cups of wine is like this when he sits down; when he goes out, he bows his head crookedly? "A tough man has three cups but a weak foot; a king has one cup and shakes his head." "Three cups of bamboo leaves passed through my heart; two peach blossoms came to my face." "Brew into spring, summer, autumn and winter wine; drunken people from the east, west, north and south." "The wine-sellers are drunk when they come; the banquet-goers are still fragrant on their way out." "These associations are ingenious, interesting, and both elegant and popular. They not only make people laugh, but also make people drink happily. Since the power of wine is so great, some people who are greedy for wine and want to win just don't believe it. The result is that Of course, there are also those who advise people to drink less. These hotel owners know business well and have a "Bodhisattva" heart, such as: "Be careful when trading, you must know that good and bad are difficult to distinguish; don't drink too much, beware of extreme happiness leading to sadness." ”

More wine links use a passionate attitude to exaggerate the variety and power of wine to attract customers. It is said that a hotel in the past was in a sluggish business and almost closed down. Later, a scholar was invited to write A couplet: "Don't care about the east or the west, just take care of the wine; whether it's good or bad, just drink. "More and more customers came to the restaurant to drink, and soon the business was booming. A couplet posted on the door of a small restaurant in a certain place said: "White clouds passed leisurely above my head; clear springs gurgled above my feet." "It was labeled as "Taibai Restaurant". Many people read this couplet and clapped their hands in admiration. Consciously or unconsciously, they wanted to go in and drink two glasses of wine. Indeed, when drinking here, there are long white clouds floating above the head and a clear spring flowing under the feet. , looking at the winding mountains in the distance, "The drunkard doesn't care about the wine, but the mountains and rivers." He is drunk and happy in it. A couplet on the door of another hotel reads: "The delicious food attracts the clouds." Foreigners; the fragrance leads to the fairy in the moon. "The couplet is full of interest, and anyone who reads it will work up an appetite and have to drink it. Fifteen kilometers northeast of Fenyang County, Shanxi Province, there is an ancient village and town famous for wine making. There is an ancient well in the town, commonly known as the Divine Well, with fragrant water. Sweet and refreshing. There is a Xinghuacun Fen Liquor on Bahuai Street in this village. The Fen Liquor brewed with green bamboo leaves has long been famous at home and abroad. "With flying birds turning into phoenixes and swimming fish turning into dragons, the wine is extremely exaggerated. Birds can turn into phoenixes when they smell the fragrance, and fish can turn into dragons when they smell the taste. What should people do after drinking such a magical wine? The implication is that only drinkers can enjoy it. I can understand it myself.

Among the couplets with wine, there are also those that are intended to describe the scenery lyrically, such as: "Autumn moon, spring flowers, celebrities' wine; green mountains, green water, beauty's flute."

"The moon is the autumn moon, the mountains are green mountains; the flowers are spring flowers, and the water is green water; the wine is drunk by celebrities, and the flute is played by beauties. It is a pleasing picture of drinking and having fun!

There are also some story links It is also related to wine. Legend has it that one day Su Shi and Qin Guan were out on a boat and suddenly saw a drunkard riding a donkey staggering along the shore. ";" Qin Guan couldn't say anything for a while. He was thinking about it. Suddenly he saw the stern man at the stern rocking the boat and tilting it up and down. He said to him: "The stern man is rocking the oar and bowing deeply to ask for the ship's money." "

In the wine couplets, there is also a negative content of drinking away sorrow. For example, "One drink of wine can relieve a thousand sorrows; three cups of wine can make everything harmonious." "There are green ants to relieve sorrow; only Du Kang can relieve sorrow." "The upper couplet of the latter couplet is linked to Li Bai's "Toast a glass to relieve sorrow" and Li Xun's poem "Plain drums and harps, green ants, a small boat with contented and happy aspirations"; the second couplet is related to Cao Cao's "How can we relieve our worries, only Du Kang" Famous lines. The couplets are pessimistic and high-spirited, but the contrasts are neat and the allusions are used appropriately. They are still worthy of appreciation from an artistic point of view. I don't know the north and the south; I don't care about the youth and the yellow, and I only sell things when I am poor. "The sarcasm is powerful, penetrating, and has a profound meaning. There used to be many land temples in rural Sichuan, and the most commonly used couplet is: "Yellow wine and white wine don't matter; roosters and hens all need to be fat." " vividly depicts those clowns who "control the land". In the past, Baojia Xiangyue was the most direct "big greaser" who extorted kind people. "Land Master" is a representative figure of these guys. Lianyu It is so ingenious that it can be called a painting of bones. It is undoubtedly quite appropriate to use it to ridicule the few people who are corrupt, bend the law and accept bribes.

In the rich and colorful treasure house of traditional Chinese medicine, there are some. The names of Chinese medicines or patented medicines themselves have far-reaching meanings and profound meanings, giving people a sense of leisure and leisure. Many literati see this characteristic of Chinese medicine names and cleverly use the names of medicines to write "medicine couplets" to give the medicines vitality. It gives vitality to the plants and trees, and the expression technique is quite neat and rigorous, so that people can not only enjoy the art but also improve their knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine. Here are a few examples:

Danggui Square Cundi;

Live alone in the world.

Sea dragons and sea horses connect the world;

Red flowers, red vines and mountain reds. The matchmaker is happy at first sight;

Aster.

Liu Jinnu looks at the spring flowers shyly;

Xu Changqing picks wintersweet with arsenic;

The Four Gentlemen teach eight ways to kill squid without using spurge;

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I think back to those days when I said goodbye to Zhimu and lotus seeds, and walked for several months and many lives, when I arrived at Shayuan. The road is cut with nepeta, covered with tribulus, and covered with platycodon;

To this day, I am satisfied and reward my polygala. I have experienced thousands of lilies and won the joy of thousands of families. I am also surrounded by fennel. I enjoy the red flowers on the way. In the familiar land, all roads are accessible.

The white-headed man, holding a big halberd, crossed the sea horse, fought with the horsetail and grass bandits, and returned to the court, worthy of the general;

The red lady. , inserting gold hairpins and wearing silver flowers, are five times better than peonies and peonies, and cistanche leaves the cabinet, like mica and angels.

Couplets include positive, negative, and serial pairs. Generally, the contents of the upper and lower couplets must be related and the coordination must be close. However, the characteristic of "ruthless pair" is that only the words in the upper and lower couplets are relative, and the content is independent of each other. The farther the difference, the better, which makes people feel weird and unpredictable and have endless aftertaste. . Here are some interesting anecdotes about ruthless pairs:

Before liberation, a newspaper in Shanghai offered a high prize for the couplet:

Huang Meitian in May;

Everyone in the league applied for the title with their own ideas. The result was unexpected. The second couplet selected for the gold list was:

Samsung Brandy

It turned out that this was a unique idea written by the owner of the winery in the newspaper. Advertising. "May" versus "Samsung" and "Huang Meitian" versus "Brandy" are neatly worded, but their meanings are irrelevant. The campaign made "Samsung Brandy" famous and also made it famous. "The ruthless pair" is widely known.

Zhang Zhidong, a minister in the late Qing Dynasty, entertained guests at Taoranting in Beijing one day and used couplets to entertain the guests.

A guest wrote a poem in the first couplet, and Zhang Zhidong replied:

The tree has been lost for thousands of years and it is difficult to swing the axe;

As expected, it has nothing to do with it.

"Tree" and "fruit" are names of things; "Qianxun" and "Yidian" are both quantifiers, and Bachi was xun in ancient times; "axe" and "stem" are both names of objects, " "Qian" is an ancient weapon. It can be said that the words are neat and tidy, but the meaning of the sentences is completely irrelevant and unexpected. Zhang Zhidong's pairing:

Taoranting;

According to common sense, the second couplet should also use the name of a place, but one guest used the name of a person in the pairing:

Zhang Zhi Hole.

Because of the exquisite pairing in the second couplet, everyone looked at each other and laughed: "Zhang" vs. "Tao" are both surnames; "Zhi" vs. "Ran" are empty words; "Dong" vs. "Ting" , is the name of the thing, the words are in pairs and the connotation is extremely "ruthless", but the interest is also born from this.

Gong Mingzhi's "Zhongwu Jiwen" in the Song Dynasty contains a couplet written by Mr. Ye:

The cockscombs have not bloomed;

Someone said:

Mr. Setaria.

The words are relative, but the meanings are unrelated. The first sentence was originally a subject predicate sentence, which means that the cockscombs have not yet bloomed, but the couplet became a partial structural sentence, and the foxtail grass became the attributive of Mr. Ye, making a joke with Mr. Ye.

There is a couplet, which is a Tang poem, and the couplet actually contains the names of three countries:

The peaches and plums at Gongmen compete for glory;

France, the Netherlands, and Belgium.

When I first read the two sentences, they are almost like fire and water, but when I taste them carefully, I am impressed by the cleverness of the pairing. It is said that Zhu Di, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, once said to the civil servant Xie Jin: "I have a couplet: 'Color is difficult', and it is very difficult to get it right." Xie Jin responded: "Easy." Zhu said: "Since it is easy, how long can it be wrong? "Explanation: "Chen Shi is right." Zhu Shi suddenly realized. "Color is difficult" means it is difficult to color. "Color" versus "appearance", "difficulty" versus "easy", it's really an exquisite ruthless pairing.

Most of the ruthless pairs are picked up by chance, and cannot be achieved by "matching a man" or "randomly matching a mandarin duck". The couplet must also have a complete meaning, and it must be unexpected and bring people to the world. It's a sudden interest, but it has endless aftertaste.

Li Qingzhao was a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, and her husband Zhao Mingcheng was an epigrapher. The couple were both erudite and proficient in poetry and rhythm, making them a famous "poetry couple". Once, the two of them attended the 150th birthday banquet of the famous longevity star Wu Lao in Qingzhou. After three rounds of wine and five delicious dishes, everyone invited Qingzhao and his wife to write a couplet together to congratulate Wu Lao on his birthday. Mingcheng showed a little humility and wrote:

When the sixties meet again, the age of Erli increases;

Every sixty years is 60 years, and the "reunion of sixties" means 120 years old. "It's 30 years old. The two numbers add up to Wu Lao's birthday, and cheers suddenly sounded in the living room. Everyone saw how Qingzhao continued the couplet, and they saw that Qingzhao was not restrained, holding the pen in his hand, and he wrote it with one wave:

The old age is celebrated twice, and the youth of childhood is restored.

"Guxi" is 70 years old, "Shuangqing" is 140 years old, and "Young Xue" is 10 years old. Together, they are exactly the age of Wu Lao. The contrast is neat and perfect. Everyone was amazed. Wu Lao was so happy that he spread out the rice paper himself and said: "You two are very elegant, please give me another copy of the book." Before Qingzhao could express his position, Mingcheng agreed first. After some speculation, he wrote down five big characters. :

Sanduo Fushouzi;

I saw Qingzhao calm and calm, his eyes fell on Wu Lao's bookshelf, an idea came to him, he lowered his head and wrote:

Four An ode to poetic elegance.

Mingcheng wanted to embarrass Qingzhao, so he bowed to Mr. Wu and said: "Since such a clumsy couplet has won the old man's love, can I and my husband present another couplet?" "Okay, okay, okay, I really want it. !” Mr. Wu spread out the rice paper himself again, with no humility, and wrote a few big characters:

Ougui Fang’s surname is Wu,

Everyone was stunned, Mr. Wu’s face Suddenly there were dark clouds.

Qingzhao took his time and wrote in Mingcheng's ink:

The turtle lives longer than the sun and the moon, and his years are noble and virtuous;

After Wu Lao looked at it, he twirled his long beard and cheered! Mingcheng never expected that Qingzhao would be able to use such a fatal word, so he continued to write a couplet "unyielding":

Mouse is also called Lao,

Qingzhao smiled sweetly, Pushing Mingcheng aside gently, he picked up his pen and wrote:

Aunt Rat’s omen is precious, and the country is beautiful and fragrant. (Rat Girl is another name for peony)

Everyone applauded the Qingzhao couple for their clever pairing. When Wu Lao saw the word "Wulao" cleverly embedded in the couplet, he was even more ecstatic and pulled Mingcheng. Cheers, husband and wife! At this point, Mingcheng also had to accept Qingzhao Jinxin Xiukou, who was extremely alert.

(Author: Zeng Boyan Recommended: Guhanya)

Occasionally there are articles to entertain the individual;

I am not interested in meeting adults.

Ten years ago, this couplet was written by Liushahe and written in regular script on rice paper. It was discovered by overseas tourists from Du Fu Thatched Cottage Haoyuxuan Book Gallery. They spent a lot of money to buy it, which became news and Liushahe started writing couplets. Hobby selling words.

There are not many people today who can express ideas in short sentences and come up with innovations under the constraints of antithesis and rhyme. It seems to be written in letters, but it has unique charm. If you are not familiar with the charm of the Chinese language and have no ability to refine the meaning and sentences, it will be difficult. Faced with today's overflowing sensual entertainment, Liushahe is only obsessed with literary self-entertainment. Isn't this entertainment the persistence of the literati spirit? The tendency of those who seek power and the influence of wealthy tycoons has become popular, but scholars disdain this approach. Isn't this the conduct of an independent personality? This kind of couplet with outstanding and vivid character is a kind of ridicule to those bold slogans in the past, so it is very popular among people.

Just as there is a school of literati painting in Chinese painting, this type of couplet can also be called literati couplet. It should be the development of poetry and prose by Dongpo, Xu Wei, and Banqiao, and it also inherits the blood of the "May Fourth Movement", so it is The couplet's semantics are popular, but also very personal. Even if some people like it, it may not be suitable for the book's family. Not only is it inappropriate, recently, there have been many requests for this couplet, and it was inconvenient for Liushahe to write it. I am jokingly changing this humorous couplet into:

There are definitely articles to entertain the individual;

I am least interested in seeing adults.

Actually, my modification is very suitable for the public, but I am afraid that no one is willing to ask for this couplet. Not only won’t people come to buy it, I’m afraid even ghosts won’t come to buy it!

The old wedding customs in western Guangdong included various customs such as "dragon candle pair", "colored flag couplet", "car door couplet" before marriage, "teasing the bride" and "difficult groom" in the bridal chamber on the wedding day. The project will conduct a "poem test" to test the couple's "knowledge of books and ink". These items are especially important when literati get married. This can be regarded as an episode in the wedding customs of western Guangdong.

Dragon Candle Pair

In the old custom of western Guangdong, on the day of wedding, the groom’s family not only prepares wine, rice and meat cakes, dried vegetables and betel nut, eight-music band, but also a red sedan chair to marry the bride. In addition, the dragon and phoenix candles used by the man's family to worship their ancestors must be wrapped and decorated, and a piece of red paper sprinkled with gold should be pasted on the outside to make a "dragon candle to the head", and the girl's family to return the "phoenix candle to the tail" . In addition to giving back a dowry such as a four-chair, clothes, blankets, shoes, hats, and utensils, the bride's family also prepares a "phoenix candle to tail" as the main form. In this way, the groom will be contented to take the dragon and phoenix candles and go home "in pairs" with the bride to harmonize her "good intentions".

The "dragon candle" answers the right end, and the "phoenix candle" answers the right tail. The two form a couplet of "good luck and good fortune". In the old days, the contents were mostly auspicious and beautiful couplets such as "Hundred years of good union; Five generations of prosperity." "Katydids are celebrating; Qilin is auspicious." Later, it gradually evolved into a routine of boasting about the glorious history of one's own clan and commending the outstanding achievements of one's ancestors. The two sides were quarreling with each other and deliberately made strange and difficult confrontations to "test" each other's literary skills. Among them, there are also many beautiful couplets that are full of philosophy and artistry. Because of this "test", the woman was unable to understand the "dragon and candle pair" for a while, and the bride could not go out even though it was getting late at night. Therefore, there are some people who spend a lot of money to hire talented people to match them, and there are also people who send people to the groom's place to secretly inquire about the "Dragon Candle Match" in advance, and there are also people who come back to arrange the match.

Because no one wants to admit their "inferiority" in public situations, this "little episode" often adds a lot of interest to the wedding, which leads to many anecdotes.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the son of Xu Guangrong of Qujing Society, Silun Town, Luoding County, betrothed the daughter of Huang Boxu of Qingtong Village as his wife. On the wedding day, the Xu family specially asked Shen Yangxuan, a scholar from Huangsha, to write a "dragon candle pair" for him:

Dragon candle draws dragon and phoenix, the dragon attracts the phoenix, the phoenix leads the dragon, the dragon leads the phoenix back. Together with white hair;

This couplet is a "Dingzhen" couplet, with the title "Dragon Candle" embedded in the first part. The Huang family is one of the three prominent families in Silun, with many literati and talented people. But when I saw this couplet, I couldn't help but be shocked. I searched my guts and racked my brains but still couldn't find a sentence. When the banquet was over, the dowry was ready, but the tails of the "dragon candle pair" had not yet come out. According to custom, the bride could not get into the sedan chair, and Huang Boshu was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. His niece Huang Erci was eighteen years old. She was smart and handsome. She was embroidering pillows in her room. When she heard about this, she asked, "Second uncle, how about my niece learn how to do this couplet?" Huang Boshu thought to himself, in the village All the literary masters who gathered here were scratching their heads and couldn't agree with him. How can a mere prostitute be right? But seeing that it was getting close to dusk, and the bride would be ridiculed by everyone if she could not get on the sedan chair, she said, "Niece, just give it a try to solve my uncle's urgent need!"

What a Huang Erci, looking at the embroidered pillow in his hand, he was moved by the scene. , and the couplet ends immediately:

Mandarin duck pillow embroidered with mandarin ducks, mandarin ducks playing with ducks