Speaking of Zhang Xiao, many friends are more familiar with it, and immediately remembered that Zhang Jian is a patriotic industrialist.
And many friends know that Zhang Xiao was the late Qing Dynasty leader of Nantong, Jiangsu Province.
Of course, Zhang Xiao's yuan is slightly different from the ordinary yuan. Because Zhang Xiao is the leader of Enko.
The so-called Enko examination refers to the imperial examination that is specially opened in the face of imperial court celebrations.
Of course, there is no difference between the gold content of enko and ordinary yuan, and they all need to go through a lot of selection, which is very proud.
Zhang Xiao had taken the imperial examination many times before, but he had never been a middle-aged soldier. In the 20th year of Guangxu (1894), Zhang Xiao performed brilliantly and became the first champion in the temple examination.
However, Zhang Xiao, who won the title, did not have a great position in his career, but became an industrial giant, which had a huge development effect on Jiangsu's economy and education.
In fact, Zhang Xiao is not only an industrialist, but also a superb couplet king, and the couplet level is pure and green, which is impressive.
After all, the readers who came from the era of the imperial examination can basically recite poems. If a talent like Zhang Xiao can't write couplets, it's a strange thing.
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Today I will share with you Zhang Xiao's 4 pairs of exquisite couplets, so that everyone can have more understanding of Zhang Xiao's talent.
At that time, the dramatist Ouyang Yuqian once went to Nantong to perform, and Zhang Jian specially wrote a yanglian for Ouyang Yuqian's "more vulgar theater".
The upper link is: "The true one is still false, why should it not be true, watch the kings appear in ink, lead the new standard, and laugh at the common common." ”
The next link is: "Ancient or victorious, now and ancient, sigh three generations of Shaoying like a dream, seek the original knowledge of change, talk should be considered hundreds of parents." ”
This pair of couplets has a long number of words, but it can be neat and tidy, and the narrative is clear, which is really amazing.
Shanglian expressed the real and illusory relationship between opera and life, and highly praised the actors' performances for having the characteristics of "leading the new", which can make the audience enjoy themselves.
Shaoying, Shunle and Di Zhao Le also refer to ancient music.
Starting from the relationship between ancient and modern, xialian said that drama can make people feel the flow of ancient and modern, and help people "seek the original knowledge and change".
Therefore, drama is not simply entertainment, but an excellent art that people should "embrace all kinds of rivers and be eclectic".
It can be said that this couplet not only closely follows the characteristics of theatrical performance, but also cleverly fits the intention of the "more vulgar theater" to change the customs, and also expresses the support and encouragement for the new school of drama and other dramas, which is a great praise for Ouyang Yuqian and others.
From this couplet, we can not only feel Zhang Xiao's talent, but also feel Zhang Xiao's enthusiasm for promoting his descendants.
Zhang Xiao has made great contributions to the cause of education in Jiangsu, and naturally there will be traces of couplets.
For example, Zhang Jian inscribed the "Tongzhou Normal Hall" in Tongzhou, Jiangsu Province: "The extreme east and west of the world are respected for educating everyone, the first saint is also cloudy, and I am not tireless in learning; the sons of Hezhou and Qin are judged by the unity of madness, and they have aspirations in their later lives, and each of them has heard and known." ”
Shanglian is to say that a great sage like Confucius, who is widely praised in China and the West, also says: "Learning is not tired, and teaching people is tireless." ”
Therefore, ordinary students should study harder, live to be old, and learn from old age.
The lower link is to say that each student's personality is different, some people are crazy, some people are fierce. And the knowledge imparted by the school is also very much, and the knowledge of the hundreds of sons and even the West is very different.
Therefore, students should strive to learn the knowledge taught by the teacher, and then use what they have learned, really put the knowledge they have learned to the table, and become a "moderate" person who reconciles "madness" as one.
(The allusion is from the Analects: "If you don't go in the middle and go with it, you will be crazy!") The madman is enterprising, and the cunning is not doing anything. ”）
This couplet not only uses the code of nature, but also works neatly, expressing Zhang Xiao's ardent expectations for the students, which is admirable.
It is said that Zhang Jian founded the Women's Red Transmission Institute in Nantong, and specially hired Shen Shou, a "master of embroidery", as the director.
Since then, Zhang Xiao and Shen Shou have a close relationship, adopting Shen Shou as a female disciple and teaching Shen Shou to write poetry, and the relationship is quite close.
Since Shen Shou was a "husband with a wife", the relationship between Zhang Xiao and Shen Shou caused some speculation at the time.
As a result, Zhang Xiao himself did not know how to avoid suspicion, and actually gave Shen Shou a couplet: "Embroidery Duan Bao's Qingyu Case; The Pearl is tied in the Red Luo. ”
It seems that there is nothing wrong with this couplet, and it seems that the content is all about clothing.
But friends who are familiar with poetry, when they see the lower link, will definitely think of the ancient poem: "Junzhi concubines have husbands, and give concubines a pearl." The sense of the king is lingering, tied in a red robe. ...... Jun Mingzhu wept bitterly, hating not meeting and not marrying. ”
Everyone will definitely speculate whether Zhang Xiao and Shen Shou have an improper relationship?
As a result, there are some rumors circulating in the folk.
Shen Shou's husband has always had a bad relationship with Shen Shou, and after hearing about this scandal in other places, he specially ran to Zhang Jian to make trouble.
Zhang Xiao had no choice, quickly broke the wealth and eliminated the disaster, gave Shen Shou's husband a large amount of money, and then helped Shen Shou's husband to take a concubine, which was "big things become small, small things become small things." ”
Unfortunately, Shen Shou died at the age of 48. When Shen Shou died, Zhang Xiao was extremely sad, and he wrote down a sincere and sincere elegance.
"True art experts, call Shou to himself, Shou is not called to name, talent is strange, so it is, so it is; also learn poetry as a female brother, regard Yu as a father, Yu has to regard Yu Zi, Madame as mourning, mourning, bereavement, bereavement."
Shanglian praised Shen Shou's talent in embroidery and other fine arts, saying that the name of "Shen Shou" was somewhat unworthy of the name, saying that it was a long life, but such a short life, which was really regrettable and lamented the early death of the hero.
Xialian reviewed the interaction between Zhang Xiao and Shen Shou, saying that Shen Shou once learned poetry from Zhang Xiao and regarded Zhang Xiao as his father.
Now that Shen Shou was dead, Zhang Xiao was as uncomfortable as a dead child, full of grief, and sighed sadly: "Heaven wants my life!" ”
(Yan Yuan died, Zi Yue: "Oh! Heaven forbid! Heaven forbid! Yan Hui died, and Confucius, who was a teacher, was extremely sad.
Here Zhang Jian borrows this allusion to express his grief at the death of his female disciple Shen Shou. ）
The "as is, so" in the upper link comes from the Buddhist scriptures, and the lower link's "bereavement, loss" comes from the Confucian Analects, which is not only neat for the battle, but also appropriately used in the scriptures.
This pair of pull-ins is really wonderful, the level is first-class. In addition to the level, we can see Zhang Xiao's feelings for Shen Shou.
Although this couplet has a very debunking meaning, Zhang Xiao said that he and Shen Shou were only "teachers and female disciples" relationships, "father and daughter" relationships, not the rumored relationship between men and women at all.
However, after careful tasting, we can feel the true feeling of this tie-up, as if we saw the appearance of Zhang Xiao's old tears, which is still very touching.
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