Couplets are a culture that has been circulating in China, and are also used by many ancient literati as their hobbies, about couplets, we always like to take it to show a kind of festivity, for example, during the Spring Festival, every household will paste the couplet on the door of the home to welcome the arrival of the Spring Festival. When people get married and have a banquet, they also post a couplet to celebrate.
In ancient times, many literati loved couplets, and one of the big reasons was that they could show that they had a good cultural foundation and literary literacy. Therefore, slowly the couplet became a means of proving that literati were talented and cultured. There are also many couplets made by literati that have been passed down to this day and become classics.
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Uplink: Solo plum blossom sweeping snow.
Lower Link: Thin Mountain Trend Dance Stream Stream.
The brilliance of this couplet is that the upper couplet is read into the scale: 'Dolemi Fa Solasi'. The lower link reads the number in dialect: 'one two three four five six seven'. Wrote about the wisdom and talent of the ancients.
For example, Lü Mengzheng of the Northern Song Dynasty, when he was young, was poor and poor, very dissatisfied with the uneven scene of rich and poor in society, and even when the Spring Festival arrived, there was nothing at home, so he wrote a couplet in one breath to express his inner feelings.
The upper link is "two three four five",
The lower link is "six seven eight nine",
Horizontal batches are "things".
This couplet was written, people came to watch it, but they felt confused, but suddenly realized what, it turned out that the meaning of this couplet was that there was no clothing (one) less (ten) food, no (things). Therefore, when the ancients wrote couplets, they wrote very exquisitely and hidden connotations.
We all know that it is not easy to write couplets, because not only do we need to consider the problem of flatness, but at the same time, the sentence pattern must be neat, and the mood needs to be in place. And it is very important that there can be no heavy words. Therefore, couplets also became a high-character art in ancient times.
In ancient times, there was a time when some literati gathered together, drinking and singing, drinking and composing poems, drinking small wine, and saying verses. But suddenly, a man said the upper link of the couplet through wine:
"One day is a day, two days is Chang, and three days is Jing."
When this man asked the literati to pick up the next sentence, he was dumbfounded, and no one could pick it up.
Look closely, the couplet contains "Ri Changjing", and there are many similar words associated with this, such as "Mu Linsen", "Xin Sen Yan yao", etc. At first glance, the literati think that it is a simple thing to get out of the lower link, but slowly discover the connotation, but find it very difficult to get out of the lower link.
Time passed slowly, and no one could figure out the next link, so they all raised their wine glasses in their hands and drank wine. Just as the literati were confused, a late-arriving literati arrived.
We all know that at the banquet, the late person usually punishes himself with three cups, but the late literati happens very coincidentally that he is a person who has a particularly bad amount of alcohol, and for this reason several other people cannot bear to punish him. But someone cleverly said a request, that is, if you can give the next link that just came out, you will be exempt from these three glasses of wine.
After listening to the Shanglian, the late literati thought carefully for a while, and suddenly as if thinking of the answer, they looked up and said:
The lower link is "Seven people are the transformation, eight people are the enemy, and nine people are the enemy." ”
When the people around them heard it, they all clapped their hands in praise, called out the wonderful, couldn't help but express their appreciation, and eliminated three glasses of wine!
Reference: Introduction to Ancient Chinese Culture