Ji Xiaolan, a litterateur in Qing Dynasty, was smart and eager to learn since childhood, with a wide range of interests. His private school teacher, Mr. Shi, is a very old-school pedant, and Xiaolan is disgusted with him. One day, Xiaolan went to feed the housebird, dug a deep hole in the brick wall, fed the housebird and sent it back to the hole, blocked it with bricks to prevent it from flying away. Later, when Mr. Shi found out, he threw the house finch to death, sent it back to the cave to block it, and put a couplet on the wall:

After the brick, the fine-feathered birds died;

When Xiaolan went to feed the house bird again, she found it was dead. I was wondering when I suddenly saw a couplet on the wall. He decided that Mr. Shi did it, so he continued to write the second couplet:

Mr Si Tong, the coarse-haired beast.

Mr. Shi was greatly annoyed when he saw it. He felt that Xiaolan should not insult the teacher, so he motioned to Xiaolan. I saw Xiao Lan calmly explain that I wrote it according to my husband's first couplet. There must be' fineness' and' coarseness',' feather' and' hair',' home' and' wild',' bird' and' beast',' brick' and' death'. So, I wrote Mr. Stone, the Coarse-Haired Beast. If it should not be written like this, please rewrite it. "

Teacher Shi twisted his beard and thought for a long time, but he didn't come up with a satisfactory bottom line. Finally, he sighed helplessly, put down his pointer and left.

Dumb couplets are very interesting

Su Dong lived in Huangzhou for several years. One night, he and his good friend monk Fo Yin went boating on the Yangtze River. Su Shi suddenly pointed to the left bank and smiled without a word. Fo Yin looked around and saw a yellow dog gnawing at a bone. He realized something and threw a cattail leaf fan engraved with Su Dongpo's poem into the water. The two men looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

It turns out that this is a dumb couplet. Su Shi's first couplet means:

Dogs gnaw at river (monk) bones;

Fo Yin bottom allied means:

Water flowing from Dongpo's corpse (Dongpo's poems).

3. The old landlord attacked and changed the old couplets.

According to legend, there is an old landlord who is proficient in literature and ink, but he likes arty. One day, for his mother's birthday, he held a big banquet and hung lanterns to make a color. I wanted to put up a pair of red couplets at the door, but I couldn't bear to pay someone to write them. So I asked Mr. Accountant to write them for me, and posted a common word on the door, "The days are getting longer and longer, and the spring is full." While Mr. Accountant was writing, the old landlord suddenly remembered that it was for his mother's birthday, and it should be changed to focus. So, let Mr. Accountant change the first part to:

As the days increase, the sun and the moon increase the mother's life span;

The old landlord is very proud of this. However, since the upper part has been changed, the lower part should be changed accordingly to be neat. He also asked the accountant to change the bottom line to:

Spring is full of Gankunda's father.

After hearing this, Mr. Accountant was really in distress situation. He was surprised and asked, "boss, this can't be changed!" " The old landlord said solemnly, "You don't know anything! Isn't' dad' very neat to' mom'? "

4. Ji Xiaolan's explanation

According to legend, Ji Xiaolan once went south to Hangzhou, and his friends gave a banquet to welcome him. During the dinner, as usual, even the sentences were correctly answered. Ji Xiaolan is very witty, and his friends convince him that he is an orphan in the north. Xiaolan disagreed and said, "People from the north are all over the Great Wall; Where does the old man's words start? " My friend said, "I used to travel north and wrote a couplet. It was wrong for everyone to wave their hands." Xiaolan was dubious and asked, "Is it so difficult for you to make a sentence?" The friend said, "Just so-so." Then, read the first part:

The twin towers are faint, with seven floors in all directions;

Ji Xiaolan said with a smile: "They are too lazy to answer such a simple sentence, just waving their hands to show that they are right!" The friend asked inexplicably, "So, what is their bottom line?" Xiaolan way:

Shake hands, five fingers are three long and two short.

After listening to it, my friend suddenly realized.

5. Unique links on Jidu Mountain

According to legend, in ancient times, a scholar visited Jidu, one of the scenic spots in Guilin. Looking at the mountain, he found that it was lovely everywhere, and even the name of the mountain was novel and amiable. While sightseeing, he muttered to himself and unconsciously hummed a couplet:

Cockfighting pheasant fights;

However, I can't draw the bottom line. Just as he was thinking hard, suddenly an old man with white hair came. The scholar looked intently and found that it was his first teacher. So I am very happy. After the teachers and students exchanged greetings, the scholar spoke of his inner difficulties. The teacher said to him, "Your couplets are echoing, with the same pronunciation and meaning." The scholar asked the teacher how he was. The teacher said, "I just swam in the cave in Long Yin. Why not use it as a guide? " Say and read aloud a way:

Hidden Dragon is in a cave in Long Yin.

The scholar was very excited and sighed, "This is a godsend!"

6. Half-linked to scare ghosts

/kloc-At the end of 0/9th century, Eight-Nation Alliance launched a crazy war of aggression against China and successively occupied Tianjin and Beijing. The corrupt Qing government had no ability to resist, so it knelt down and made peace. It is said that before the "peace talks" began, the representative of a certain country tried to insult the people of China. So he said to the government representative, "couplets are a unique literary form in your country." Now I'll make a couplet. If you can match, I will give you five heads. If you can't match, do the same. " The representative of the Qing government was in shock and blurted out the first part:

Eight kings of pipa, harp and harp, the king is on the throne;

The word "Qin, Hare and Qin" has the word "Wang", which is used to refer to "Eight-Nation Alliance" and also to show off the arrogance of the conqueror. Hearing this, the other imperialists present burst into laughter. Some representatives of the Qing government just smiled; Although some have uneven chests, they have nothing to answer; The chief representative is even more afraid of chaos and dizziness. Speaking of which, I saw a clerk in the delegation, throwing a pen and answering forcefully:

Ghosts and Ghosts are four imps. Ghosts and Ghosts are invading the border.

"Magic shadows" are four kinds of monsters that can harm people in legend. They are unfair, stable and severely condemn imperialism as a "imp" who frequently violates China's sovereignty. Other representatives listened and breathed a sigh of relief; Hearing this, the invaders were all shocked; Hearing this, the provocative gentleman was dumbfounded, so he had to kneel down and knock on the head toward the north, causing laughter.

7. laugh at it.

In the early years of the Republic of China, a couplet in a Chinese medicine shop in Beijing surprised everyone who saw it. This joint article is:

The attack of "six gentlemen";

The Death of Chen Er Tang.

"Six Gentlemen" and "Erchen Decoction" are two soup names of traditional Chinese medicine. The author of the couplet is cleverly embedded in the couplet, satirizing Yuan Shikai, a traitor, and performing an ugly drama of the emperor. After Yuan Shikai usurped the fruits of the Revolution of 1911, he was ambitious and dreamed of becoming an emperor. At that time,

(19 15) Yang Du came forward, contacted Sun, Yan Fu, Liu, and formed a "security meeting", claiming that "the security of a country should be maintained", advocating Yuan Shikai to be emperor and calling these six people "six gentlemen". The first part satirizes Yuan Shikai's illness as emperor and begins.

The "Tang" in the second couplet refers to Chen in Shaanxi and Sichuan, and is the representative of the local strength faction. Tang is Yuan Shikai's confidant. They are all Yuan Shikai's confidants, and it is very hard to call Yuan the emperor. Later, Cai E first crusaded against Yuan Shikai in Yunnan, and various places responded in succession. The situation immediately got worse. The people of the whole country resolutely opposed Yuan and Chen, and when they saw that the situation was not good, they immediately turned defeat into victory. They successively declared Yuan's "independence" in Shaanxi and Shuzhong. Yuan Shikai saw a fire in the backyard, alienated from his relatives, became ill in anger and died. He was only a short-lived emperor for more than 80 days, leaving an ugly name.

The beauty of this pair of couplets is that they are linked together in the name of traditional Chinese medicine, with only ten words, showing a major historical event, which is pungent and ironic and breathtaking.

8. unify gan Kun and turn around.

Wu of Jiangsu (now Wujin) is a famous local family. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were many families, the most prominent of which was Wu Zongda, who was called "thirteen cabinet elders". The wife of the champion in Yixing is a girl of the Wu family.

At that time, Wu Zongda was a juren. One day, he rented a boat to go to Jiangyin. When traveling to Yixing, I suddenly saw a teenager with hair on the bank next to him, coming in the same direction as the boat in the afternoon. The more Wu Zongda watched it, the more funny it became. He asked the servant to call him to the boat and asked him kindly, "What's your name and where do you live?" The child said unhurriedly, "My ancestral home is in Yixing County. My surname is Zhou, and my first name is Zhou."

After a while, the little guy's eyes began to fight, and soon he slept on the board with a book on his pillow. Wu Zongda saw it, then song Yin way:

Take the book as the pillow, and the sages will sleep together through the ages.

Zhou Yanru didn't actually fall asleep. At the moment, he heard it in his ear. He opened his eyes and saw the paper fan in Wu Zongda's hand. On the one hand, I drew an astronomical map, on the other hand, I drew a geographical map. His eyes flickered and he casually replied:

Gently shake the fan, unify Gankun and reverse Gankun;

Hearing this, Wu Zongda got a fright! At a young age, he was agile and asked him, "Son, can you do eight-part essay?" Zhou Yanru confidently replied, "Yes." Wu Zongda asked him to write an article on the word "boy". Zhou Yanru wrote it without thinking, and it was done in a very short time. Wu Zongda was even more surprised to see that unique style of writing. I thought: this little guy has such talent and will definitely have a future.

After Wu Zongda came back from Jiangyin, he began to betroth his niece to Zhou Yanru. His brother and sister-in-law saw Zhou Yanru in vain. They didn't rely on him. It was Wu Zongda who broke his mouth and persuaded his brother and sister-in-law to betroth his niece to Zhou Yanru.

9. Ding versus Wu Dao

There was a scholar named Wu in Suzhou in the Ming Dynasty. Both he and his good friend Ding Min like to write poems. They often sing poems together until they stay up all night. Later, I simply moved to live with Wu.

One day, Wu bought some wood from two people and invited four carpenters to make some furniture for him. But the four carpenters worked slowly, but they scrambled to eat. After dinner, Wu felt the scenery and sang along:

Four people succeed, more work and less;

Hearing this, Ding Min knew it was a couplet, bowed their heads and thought for a moment, then said to himself:

Two men came back late carrying wood, one was shorter and the other was longer.

They sang songs, smiled at each other and praised each other in unison.

This couplet is a clever pair of figures. The word "Huan" (a variant) on the first couplet was changed to "four people to promote work", which means that there are many people working, so the furniture is made slowly. The second couplet writes "Lai" (traditional Chinese characters) as "two people carrying a big log", which means that two employees are carrying a big log, and "people are short of firewood" and it is not easy to walk, so they come back late. The antithesis of "short", "long" and "many" and "little" in couplets is very skillful.

10. Wang Ruyu and his son are opposite.

Wang Ruyu (? -14 15), a calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty, was born in Changzhou (now Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province) in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. I learned a lot when I was a child, I still remember. I am called a child prodigy. In the early years of Yongle, Ying Tianfu instructed Dr. Hanlin in the Five Classics, moved to the right spring to praise goodness, rehearsed the Yongle ceremony, and moved to the left to praise goodness. Tired of sitting in Jie Jin, he died in prison. Wen Jing. There is a collection handed down from generation to generation by Qingcheng Mountain people.

When Wang Ruyu was seven years old, she followed her father outside to see the scenery after the snow. As soon as the sun shines, the snow on the house melts, and it falls from the gutter like rain. His father improvised a couplet:

There is no snow in the sun and moon, and there is no rain in the eaves;

Let my son make a couplet. Wang Ruyu looked around, only to see the wind in the distance, blowing dust, like smoke, quickly made a bottom allied:

The wind blows the dust, and there is no fire in the ground.

1 1. Wang Yimiao showed his literary talent.

Wang Yi, a writer at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, was born in Sichuan. His parents died and he lived in poverty. After living in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Enter Tiantai Mountain and worship Wang as a teacher.

Wang Yi was exceptionally clever since he was a child. He talked with the guests, and his answers flowed like water, and his name was heavy for a while. On one occasion, Wang Changzong was invited to a banquet in a scholarly family. Because he was the youngest and most valued by his master, some guests were unconvinced and made a sentence to Ziyun:

Phoenix is an extraordinary bird;

This couplet is very clever. It has two meanings. One is to laugh at Wang Yi's ordinary knowledge, but he is a "bird of mortals", so don't be self-righteous; Second, the word "phoenix" in the traditional writing is only the "bird" in the "fan" from the perspective of paired combination.

Wang Yi after listen to not angry, only to 1:

Silkworms are worms in the world.

That secretly applauded the guest, but he still wanted to say it and try it face to face. Sentence cloud:

The stars in the sky and the wages in the underground are people-oriented and have different meanings;

This sentence is obviously much more difficult than the last one. The three sounds of "star", "salary" and "heart" in this sentence are synonymous, and the bottom line must be relative to meet the requirements. He thought that this sentence would certainly stumped Wang Yi, but after a little thinking, Wang Yi was right:

The same is true of the cloud goose, the swallow before the eaves and the hedgehog.

The words "Yan", "Yan" and "Yu" in this pair of couplets are also synonymous. And they all belong to birds. Everyone present called the king a wizard.

About the moon shadow.

In the Qing Dynasty, a worship tower was built on the south bank of Jinjiang in Chengdu to commemorate Xue Tao, a poetess in the Tang Dynasty. A scholar touched the scene and wrote the following poem:

Wangjianglou, Wangjiangxi, Wangjiangxi on Wangjianglou, rivers flow through the ages, and towers flow through the ages. The celebrity lived in Chengdu for half a year, but he couldn't touch the bottom line, so he had to go back to his hometown gloomily.

More than a hundred years have passed. 1964, Chengdu held a large-scale "Poetry Meeting of Workers, Peasants and Soldiers" in Wangjianglou. A worker came to the stage and recited his sequel:

Poetry platform competition, poetry talent competition, poetry platform poetry talent competition, poetry platform peerless, poetry talent peerless.

The audience applauded everywhere, and today's people skillfully linked with the ancients, and they talked beautifully for a while.

In fact, as early as around 1920, a Mr. Li discovered an ancient well on the Pearl City Dam, next to a stone tablet engraved with "Gu Yue Well" during the Jiaqing period, which was inspired and continued the absolute of Wangjiang Tower:

Printing the moon well, printing the moon shadow, printing the moon well, printing the moon shadow for thousands of years. This joint work is steady and decent, and its voice is natural. It can be said that "the article is natural and wonderful."

13. All the old trees on the rocks are dead, and this wood is firewood.

According to legend, Ji Xiaolan gave Gan Long a pair, but Gan Long could not get its rights.

One day in Jiangnan, I saw some girls playing by the river.

The woman by Baishuiquan is good, but the girl is wonderful.