Classic limerick

Generally, vulgar poems are called "limerick", and there is an allusion here. In the Tang Dynasty, a man named Zhang Dayou wrote a poem about snow:

The mountains and rivers are general, and there are black holes in the well.

the yellow dog is white and the white dog is swollen.

The whole poem is vulgar and plain, and Zhang Dayou's reputation spread. Later, people called vulgar poems doggerel. Interestingly, many celebrities in the past dynasties occasionally made oil paintings. According to legend, Su Shi has a horse face, and Su Xiaomei has a very wide forehead. They used to play jokes on each other with doggerel. Su Shi first made an attack:

His front foot was not out of the boudoir, but his forehead was in front of Huatang.

Not to be outdone, Su Xiaomei retorted:

Last year, a little lovesick tears began to flow to her lips this year.

Jie Jin, a great talent in the early Ming Dynasty, was humorous and resourceful. He once went fishing with Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu fished for a long time, but he didn't catch any fish. He was furious. Jie Jin was busy complimenting him:

Where fish dare not go to the emperor, long live the king only fishes.

I made it clear that Zhu was "very happy". Tang Bohu in Ming Dynasty was aloof and unwilling to covet precious things. He wrote a doggerel and hung it in his study to show his mind:

If you don't practice alchemy, you won't meditate, and you will be a fairy in the Peach Blossom Temple.

write a picture of a castle peak and sell it at leisure, so as not to make people make money.

Zheng Banqiao in the Qing Dynasty also wrote a similar self-encouragement poem:

Insist that the green hills are not relaxed, and the roots are in the broken rocks.

it's tough after thousands of blows, and it's windy in the southeast and northwest.

limerick is often used to ridicule and tease others. According to legend, when Ji Xiaolan wrote a birthday couplet for an official's mother, he wrote: The old lady is not human. An official's face was exposed and livid. Ji unhurriedly continued: Nine fairies descended to earth. The official turned anger into joy and even sighed subtly. Unexpectedly, with a stroke of a pen, Ji was: adopted children are used to being thieves. The official immediately fainted to the ground. When he came down to wake him up, Ji added: Stealing a peach to honor his mother. When I looked back at the official again, I looked pale, sweaty and flustered, as if I had gone to the gate of hell. There is another example of the same. In ancient times, a scholar presented a doggerel for the birthday of a family named Tao, saying,

What can I do but what can I do? Why is it raining cats and dogs today?

On a rainy night, I wish Tao longevity, which is more than the torrential rain.

the first three sentences of the poem made my family furious, and the sentence was abrupt, which made the birthday poem full of brilliance, which showed that the scholar was clever in thinking.

Li Tiaoyuan, a gifted scholar in the former Qing Dynasty, was also a master painter. According to the cloud, during Li's tenure as the examiner of the two rivers, many scholars refused to accept it and joined forces with Li Yinshi. In the end, everyone sang a poem on the topic of sparrows. Without thinking, Li recited two limerick poems. One cloud:

one nest after another, three four five six seven eight nests.

if you eat all the Wang Qian Zhong Su, you will have more Phoenix!

the second cloud:

one after another, all with shallow hair and sharp mouth.

the hair is too shallow to fly, but the mouth is too sharp to sing.

Don't laugh, Dapeng is silent, spreading his wings for nine days.

The scholars laughed at first, then laughed and laughed, and finally froze. Li Diaoyuan smiled and said nothing, and roared off.

There are also emperors who write limerick. According to legend, during the reign of Emperor Qianlong in Qing Dynasty, when an academician wrote a letter, he mistook "Weng Zhong" for "Zhong Weng", and Qianlong conveniently criticized:

How Weng Zhong can be a Zhong Weng, ten years' cold window will make little contribution.

Now, Lin Han is not allowed to be sent to Jiangnan for a verdict.

Qianlong attacked poison with poison, and deliberately wrote Kung Fu, Hanlin and Tongguan as Fu Gong, Lin Han and Tongguan. The Hanlin was ashamed and went to the south of the Yangtze River.

The most interesting one is a limerick that satirizes some so-called poets:

I have never seen the poet's face in my life, but I have met the poet.

how can you fart on a high wall if you are not a poet?

The language of this poem is vulgar, humorous and hilarious, which is enough to make those "poets" feel ashamed.

limerick is also often used to brag. In ancient times, a bunch of scholars met in the wild by chance, boasting about their talents and arguing with each other, and finally decided to sing a poem that best expressed their talents. A scholar beat the "crowd" and won the championship. Its poem says:

The number of articles in the world is Sanjiang, and the number of articles in Sanjiang is hometown.

the number of articles in my hometown is my younger brother, who learns articles with me.

once this poem was published, other scholars had nothing to say.

The bragging function of limerick was brought into full play in the 195s, when the leading poet in that field also wrote, "The Yang family has an aunt Yang, who is 58 years old this year. In the era of "poets of all people" who are tall and big, with heavy eyebrows and wide mouths, many "peasant poets" emerged, and four limerick poems are "masterpieces":

(1)

Plant a pumpkin like the earth and stand on the top of Wuyue Mountain.

If you throw it into the Pacific Ocean, there will be another continent on the earth.

(2)

A rice ear is long and long, and bridges are built on both sides of the Yellow River.

ten cars walk side by side, and the train doesn't sway when it comes.

(3)

A fat pig is big and long, and its body spans the Pacific Ocean.

The pig's back can get off the plane, and the pig becomes an airport.

(4)

The rice piles are round and sharp, and the members piled up rice to the sky.

Pull a piece of white cloud to wipe the sweat, and get close to the sun to smoke a bag of cigarettes.

There is also a special kind of doggerel, the whole poem is seventeen characters, commonly known as "three sentences and a half" among the people, and there is also a story here. According to legend, there was a scholar in ancient times who had a high opinion of himself, and he often boasted that he spoke eloquently. Unfortunately, in actual writing, it was a quatrain, and he often got stuck when he read the last sentence, so he had to end it in two words in a hurry, so he got the nickname of "three sentences and a half". On one occasion, "Three Sentences and a Half" met a peasant girl in the wild, and her poems were full of joy. She said at the exit:

The sunset shines on the villa, and a girl is coming.

the golden lotus is only three inches, measuring horizontally.

When the peasant girl heard this, her face turned pale with anger, and she called her family to deliver "San Sentence and a Half" to the court. As soon as she went to court, "San Sentence and a Half" saw that the county magistrate was surnamed Wang, and she blurted out:

The county magistrate was originally surnamed Wang and was bent on being emperor.

with a click, he died.