Couplet is the tradition of the Chinese nation, but also one of the long-standing cultures, now the New Year, every household will paste a good couplet, a good color head, it is said that the couplet is from the five generations after the Shu lord Meng Chang, he wrote the first couplet at the time of the harvest of the year: New Year NaYu Qing, Jia Jie Number Changchun.
This is China's first couplet, but also the first Spring Couplet, now the couplet has been listed in China's first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, couplets have been passed down for thousands of years, many people also like to pair up with people, and some big families like to use historical names as couplets.
The Zhang family came out with an upper couplet: Zhang Fei, Zhang Qian, Zhang Xueliang, blatantly, I have to say that although this couplet is not a couplet in the traditional sense, the three people in this couplet are all well-known figures.
Zhang Fei, a famous general of the Shu Han Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms. He was brave and fierce, and Guan Yu and called "ten thousand enemies", in 184, the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Liu Bei organized a volunteer army in Zhuo County to fight against the Yellow Turban Army, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu joined together, the two followed Liu Bei in the southern conquest of the northern war, the three people were brothers, taoyuan three knots of righteousness became a great praise for later generations.
Zhang Qian was a famous diplomat, traveler, and pioneer of the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, and in the second year of jianyuan (139 BC), Zhang Qian was ordered by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, with Gan Father (Xiongnu) as a guide, leading more than 100 people from Chang'an to the Western Regions, not only interfering with the Xiongnu along the way, but also facing a difficult environment.
In the third year of Yuan Shuo (126 BC), Zhang Qian experienced thirteen years, and finally ended his first trip to the Western Regions, when he returned to Chang'an, more than 100 people at the time of departure, when he returned, only he and Gan Father were left, Zhang Qian reported the information of the kingdoms of Dawan, Kangju, Dayue and Bactria that he had visited to Emperor Wu of Han, and Emperor Wu of Han was very satisfied, and sent people and horses to prepare him to go on a mission to the Western Regions again.
Zhang Xueliang is the son of Zhang Zuolin, the "king of the northeast", and also a famous anti-Japanese general, in 1937, he launched an incident in Xi'an, forcibly ended the civil war, the muzzle of the gun was unanimous, but he was also imprisoned, at the age of 90 Zhang Xueliang was free, and his life was quite bumpy.
This upper link of the Zhang family is indeed very wonderful, three people have created different eras, but no matter how good the couplet can not be said to be the first, this is not the Yang family's people have disobedience, domineering response to a lower link: Yang Guang, Yang Ye, Yang Hucheng, Yang Hua in the wind, I have to say, this lower link is also wonderful!
Although the Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guang was somewhat criticized in history, he also left a great achievement, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal still plays an important role today. The famous Northern Song general Yang Ye, for the Northern Song Dynasty's southern conquest of the northern war, he was called :invincible", even if captured, he did not want to surrender to the enemy, hunger strike for three days and died.
Yang Hucheng was born as a knifeman, a patriotic general, zhang Xueliang before launching the incident, he consulted with Yang Hucheng, but unfortunately, Yang Hucheng was assassinated in the end, in terms of merit, Yang Hucheng did pay more than Zhang Xueliang, and the world should also remember Yang Hucheng.