Interesting couplets of Jie Jin Jr., a "prodigy" in Ming Dynasty.

When I was very young, I liked grandpa to tell me stories. Midsummer night, the weather is hot. In those days when there was no air conditioning, whenever night fell, grandpa moved his bamboo cool bed and bamboo lounge chair to the front door to enjoy the cool. When I was eleven or twelve years old, I always liked to sit next to my grandfather with a small bench and listen to him leaning on a bamboo chair. My grandfather told me stories, day by day. One day, my grandfather told me a story about a talented person in the Ming Dynasty.

Words: During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a bachelor named Jie Jin. It is said that he can recite poems at the age of six or seven, and people call him a "prodigy". When Jie Jin was five years old, he played games with a group of his peers in the village. In June, the weather changed. Suddenly, it rained heavily with thunder and lightning. Because Jie Jin is very young, he can't run faster than other tall children. He slipped and fell on a rainy day and got covered in mud. Instead of helping him, his playmates laughed at Jie Jin like clay dolls.

Seeing this scene, Jie Jin, covered in mud, recited a poem in a tender voice: "When it rains, the neighborhood is as slippery as oil. The phoenix fell to the ground and laughed and killed a group of cows. " He compared laughing at his companion to a cow and himself to a phoenix.

Seeing Jie Jin's cleverness, his father always intends to test him. During the spring ploughing season, his father took him to the field where rice seedlings were planted. His father stood in the paddy field transplanting rice seedlings and sent a pair of couplets to Jie Jin Jr.: "The straw sticks to the seedling, and the father holds the child." Jie Jin Jr. was standing on the ridge of the field when suddenly an old woman was packing bamboo shoots in a bamboo basket in front of the bamboo forest. As soon as he rolled his eyes, he made a couplet and said to his father, "Bamboo shoots are pregnant." A clever couplet won his father's laughter.

Jie Jin's family is very poor. There is a small yard in front of three thatched houses. The door of this small yard is just opposite the bamboo garden of a rich man's house in Murakami, so he posted a couplet on the door:

Bambusa door to door

Jia Zang thousands of books

The rich man was very unhappy after seeing it and thought, how can I let him borrow my bamboo garden scenery? So he ordered people to cut down a bamboo. Jie Jin saw it and added a sentence below the couplet:

The door is as short as a thousand bamboo poles.

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The rich man was even more angry and immediately ordered people to cut all the bamboo. After Jie Jin saw it, he added a sentence below the couplet:

This door is short of bamboo.

This family owns thousands of books.

This time, the rich man was very surprised and asked his servant to call Jie Jin. When Jie Jin came to the rich man's house, he saw the front door closed and said loudly, "The front door is not open. This is not a reason to welcome guests. " The rich man came in and said, "I'm going out for the first half." If you can get the second half, I'll open the door to see you. " Then, read:

The dog is ignorant and the road is narrow.

Jie Jin right way:

Dapeng spreads his wings and hates the sky.

The rich man went out again:

Heaven makes chessboard stars, who dares to play?

Jie Jin immediately took the bottom allied:

When the earth is a pipa road and a string, which one can play?

Hearing Jie Jin's quick answer, the rich man even called him a "wizard" and immediately opened the front door to meet him. Admire children from the heart. Later, the rich man took Jie Jin to his mansion, asked Mr. Wang to teach him to read and write, and went to Beijing to take the exam. He was buried underground. It is said that he was only a teenager when he became an official. Because of his outstanding talent, Zhu Yuanzhang made him a cabinet record, and he was also a university student in Youchunfang.

Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty appreciated Jie Jin's talent very much. But Zhu Yuanzhang was also born in poverty. After he became emperor, he was the last person to expose his past. He likes to listen to good words. Jie Jin, an official in North Korea, knew the emperor's habits like the back of his hand. Jie Jin himself is a proud man, but before the emperor, he had to say something nice, but he won the dragon's heart, and at the same time he didn't lose his grace!

One day, Jie Jin accompanied Zhu Yuanzhang to visit the Royal Garden. The emperor suddenly said to Jie Jin, "The palace was full of joy last night. Won't you write a poem? "

Jie Jin immediately thought that there might be a prince born, so export:

The king dropped the golden dragon last night.

Zhu Yuanzhang said, "It's a princess." Jie Jin turned his head and sang the second sentence:

Turn Chang 'e into nine heavy objects.

Who knows Zhu Yuanzhang went on to say, "It's a pity that he is dead." Jie Jin immediately changed to:

It is expected that the world will not stay.

This sentence is wonderful, and it is unfortunate to regard it as "just going down to earth and going up to heaven". Zhu Yuanzhang went on to say, "She has been thrown into the water." Jie Jin immediately sang out:

Turn over and jump into the crystal palace

In ancient times, only the children of the emperor could be called "dragon species". The last sentence echoes the first sentence from a distance, which is wonderful. This poem won the emperor's hearty laughter!

One year during the Spring Festival, Zhu Yuanzhang hosted a banquet in honor of the civil and military officials. After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, those self-righteous old ministers laughed at Jie Jin, who was short in green robe, with couplets. "The toad in the well wears a green coat," Jie Jin blurted out the following couplets at once. He knew that those people were laughing at him. "The crab in the pot is wearing a red robe." He compared the old minister to a cooked dead crab and turned red with anger!

When Jie Jin was an official, he did a lot of practical things for the people. His cleverness, pride, honesty and frankness offended many powerful ministers. He knew that he would die sooner or later, so he set up a satisfactory game for his family.

Once, the queen was ill and could not be cured for a long time. The emperor was in a terrible hurry. Jie Jin had a plan in mind and said to the emperor, "The queen has a strange disease, and only Fang Xin can cure it." Hearing this, the emperor was both happy and worried. Where can he find the heart of the quartet?

Jie Jin guessed the emperor's mind. He patted his chest and said, "Your Majesty, my heart is square. As long as I can cure the empress, I will die! " The emperor was very moved and said, "Your loyalty is commendable, but I don't have the heart to kill you." Jie Jin smiled easily: "Your Majesty, I won't die. I learned a talisman tactic in Longhushan when I was a child. Please read my formula three times at that time, and my little minister will be safe. " The emperor was relieved.

The next day, the emperor summoned officials from civil and military departments to see the heart of Jie Jin. All civil and military officials made a fuss about Jie Jin. Jie Jin was very calm and said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, remember to read the amulet!" The emperor nodded in agreement. Jie Jin picked up a steel knife and stabbed it into his chest, urging the emperor to read the formula quickly.

Seeing his blood gushing, the emperor quickly opened the note given by Jie Jin, which read: "Died in the Golden Temple and was buried in the Purple Mountain." Jie Jin still had a breath and struggled to say, "Thank you, Lord Long En!" Then he lost his breath. The emperor asked someone to show his heart: it is no different from the heart of ordinary people. Where is Fang Xin? Thinking about his "formula" again, I suddenly realized that he wanted the emperor to let him "die in the Golden Temple and be buried in the Purple Mountain", which was the highest reward! The emperor knew that he had been cheated, but it was not easy to change his mind, so he had to be buried in Purple Mountain. Because the emperor is a "golden mouth and jade words", what he said is just one sentence, and Jie Jin helped himself and protected his family with poetry.