China's couplet culture has a long history, and in the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, couplets have been produced. After more than a thousand years of development, the couplet culture has flourished. Nowadays, when everyone talks about couplets, they can say a few words to each other. Couplet culture is the treasure of our Chinese nation and deserves our eternal inheritance. There are many couplet masters in history, including the Northern Song Dynasty scholar Su Shi and his good friend Buddha Seal monk. Su Shi was unhappy in the official field in his later years, but he and the Buddha Seal saw each other and became very good friends, and the two had similar interests and talked about everything.
Once, Su Shi was idle and bored at home, so he went to the Golden Mountain Temple to chat with the Buddhist monk. Who knows, that day the Buddhist monk happened to be out of the temple. Then Su Shi found a small Shami who was always around the Buddha Seal, and wanted to inquire where the Buddha Seal had gone. However, he wanted to take the opportunity to ridicule the Buddhist monk, and asked Xiao Shami: Where is the bald donkey?
Xiao Shami knew that this was Su Shi ridiculing the bald head of the Buddha Seal Zen Master, and he had to think of a perfect link to go back. While thinking, Xiao Shami happened to see a donkey grazing on the eastern slope, so he had an idea, and then blurted out: The eastern slope grazed.
This lower link is simply wonderful, not only a perfect response to Su Shi's question, but also alluding to Su Dongpo's donkey who only eats grass. Su Shi laughed when he heard this, not expecting that Xiao Shami next to the Buddha Seal was so wise.
There is also Ji Xiaolan, who prides himself on being the first talent of the Qing Dynasty. Ji Xiaolan's career was not smooth sailing, at first he only served in the local area, and then because of his outstanding political achievements, he was transferred back to the capital by Qianlong. On the way back to Beijing, Ji Xiaolan met his former classmate and served as a county commander in a certain place in Hunan. The relationship between the two was particularly good when they were studying, and they saw each other again many years later, and they had a lot of feelings. On that day, the two of them talked about wine until midnight.
But there was no feast in the world, and the next morning, Ji Xiaolan packed up his luggage and prepared to return to Beijing. When I was parting, the same window said: This day is a parting, I don't know when we will see each other, I just have a shanglian here, and I also ask Brother Ji to teach me. Then the upper link was said: rats are called old regardless of size.
This uplink is very interesting, rats really do not have the size of the statement, but all called rats. After Ji Xiaolan heard this, he immediately came out of the lower link: The parrot has both male and female names called brother. This lower link is absolute, although the parrot is divided into male and female, but it is called parrot brother. The same window was amazed by this and lamented that Brother Ji's talent was still the same.
Today we are going to talk about a very interesting couplet: the bird is in the cage, and the hate Guan Yu cannot fly. The literal meaning of this upper link is easy to understand, the bird is trapped in a cage, bound wings, unable to spread its wings and fly high.
In fact, there is a deep meaning, that is, on the road of life, there will always be many obstacles to constrain your talent. The most interesting thing is that this shanglian also contains two Three Kingdoms characters, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. That is to say, this couplet has a pun, and it is not easy to make a perfect couplet. Not only must the mood be combined, but also the names of historical figures must be included.
But no matter how difficult the uplink is, it is difficult for our smart netizens, many netizens soon came up with an excellent downlink: leopard into the water, laughing Lin Chong is really Wu Yong; If a person goes to the Buddha, he can only go to the void by keeping the eight precepts; Outside the bee nest, I want to explore why spring should attack people. These lower links are not only very neat, but also the artistic conception is just right, very classic, and can be called absolute. Chinese is really a combination of culture and martial arts!