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In addition to his love of sightseeing in the mountains and rivers, the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty also liked to give poetry and painting, and many of the cultural relics in the Forbidden City were inscribed with various imperial poems of the Qianlong Emperor. In addition to composing his own poems, Qianlong also liked to study the absolutes of ancient and modern times, and often used this topic to test the ministers around him. There are many small stories about Qianlong's poetry, and I will share one with you today.
One year, Qianlong held the imperial examination, and the third tanhua was fixed early, but the title and the list of eyes were delayed. The two ministers in charge of the imperial examination argued endlessly with Yan and Ji Xiaolan, one recommended candidates surnamed Wang and the other recommended candidates surnamed Li, because of the disagreement, the two found Qianlong, hoping that the emperor would make a decision. Qianlong was resting in the imperial garden at that time, so he called both candidates to the garden and wanted to test the two articles in person.
Because there was no pen, ink and paper in the garden, the two were trembling and kneeling in front of the palace, and it was impossible to do eight strands of text on the spot, qianlong thought of a good way, to make an uplink, to see who could link up and down, and to the battle was to point out the emperor Yuanlang. This is a big thing to choose the yuan, naturally can not be sloppy, so Qianlong looked around at the scenery in the royal garden, out of an absolute: smoke lock pond willow.
This Shanglian was not thought up by Qianlong himself, it is a sentence in the "Zhongzhou Caotang Relics Collection", composed by Chen Zisheng in the Ming Dynasty. Although it looks very simple, only five words, the artistic conception in the upper link is also very refreshing, that is, writing the scenery, but in fact, there is a lot of mystery. Smoke, lock, pond, pond, willow, the five words of the side of the head corresponds to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, want to conform to the mood and imply the five elements, it is really difficult.
In fact, Qianlong himself did not come out of the lower league, just use this absolute to try the depth of the two candidates. Among them, after listening to the candidates surnamed Li recommended by Ji Xiaolan, they directly reported to Qianlong: "Little students are not talented, and there is no good pair." And the candidates surnamed Wang recommended by Hezhen have been thinking hard and trying to find suitable materials from the garden to use in the right place.
Qianlong saw this scene haha a happy, hand-picked the candidate surnamed Li as the emperor Yuanlang, and the candidate surnamed Wang as the eye of this time. Ji Xiaolan smiled, but He Yan was very puzzled and asked Qianlong why. Qianlong asked Ji Xiaolan to answer questions for Hezhen, and Ji Xiaolan said: "The combination of the saints is absolute, and Li Zhuangyuan can find himself powerless to deal with it at the first time, proving that there is wenmo in his chest; while Wang Bangyan, although he tries hard to cope, he is indeed inferior to Li Zhuangyuan in thinking, and his ability is insufficient." ”
After hearing this, He Yan was very unconvinced, but the person he liked was suppressed by the talent brought by Ji Xiaolan, in order to regain face, he asked Ji Xiaolan in front of Qianlong to face the public, otherwise it would show that Ji Xiaolan, like Wang Bangyan, was incompetent. Ji Xiaolan groaned slightly, and faced his own subordinate: the Cannon Town Haicheng Tower.
At first glance, this lower link is neat and tidy with the upper link, and there are also five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth hidden in it. However, the pond willows in the upper link are everywhere, but Haicheng Tower is a specific place name, so Ji Xiaolan's connection is not a perfect rhyme. Of course, He Yan also thought of this, but his own lower link did not even meet the five elements, so he had to give up and return home in sorrow.
Today, hundreds of years have passed, many literati and inkers have racked their brains, want to make the perfect "smoke lock pond willow" downlink, now there are many versions, such as "Maple Flame Mirror Lake Causeway", "Peach Burning Jinjiang Causeway", and even at first glance very funny "Bancheng Shochu Liquor", "Shenzhen Teppanyaki" and so on.