In traditional Chinese culture, couplets are a very interesting content. In Wang Anshi's poem "Yuan Ri", couplets were mentioned. "Thousands of households on the day of dawn, always replace the new peach with the old charm", it is said that the new year has arrived, last year's old peach charm was replaced by a new peach charm, indicating that the new year, there should be a new atmosphere, one of the New Year's activities in many areas is the couplet.
According to legend, there was once a widow who said such a shanglian: "one person one bowl and one pot", many people do not know what she wants to express, but a Xiucai is out of the lower link, do not want the widow to listen to Xiucai's witty words, and even blushed and wanted to marry Xiucai, so what did Xiucai say? What message is being conveyed between them? Let's take a look!
Couplet story
Couplets are one of the cultural traditions of the Han chinese among the fifty-six ethnic groups in China, and are said to have originated from the Shu lord Meng Chang five generations later. It is called "couplet", which began in the Ming Dynasty. In the beginning, the couplet was not written directly on paper, because the production process of paper in ancient times was more complicated, so the price of paper was very expensive, and the average person could not afford to consume it.
Therefore, ordinary people will use bamboo or wood to carve couplets. Later, when paper became popular, people did not have to spend a lot of effort to carve couplets on bamboo and wood, but directly wrote them on paper.
It is said that the New Year's Day is due to the New Year's beast. Nian Beast is most afraid of red, if the door is pasted with red, Nian Beast will not dare to go near, so that the family can be safe.
Some people also say that the couplet is to express the expectation of a better life, and we often see something like "The golden jade is full of family prosperity, and the blessing star protects the house to give peace." Or "Smooth sailing, Wangding Wangcai Wangjia home." "These are all common couplets in the New Year.
But whatever the reason for the couplet, it was originally meant to express happiness and contentment. I believe that many friends have found that the couplet is divided into two parts, the upper link and the lower link, but in the correct format, there is also the key to the horizontal batch.
Couplets have always been loved by literary lovers for their characteristics of neatness and harmony, and the combination of works can be simply interpreted as the words and parts of speech that appear in the upper and lower couplets are relative, or they can have the opposite meaning, similar to "left high mountain, right flowing water, a song that has been sung for eternity; the sky and white clouds, the earth is green grass, and a few feet of fairyland on earth." ”
The left and right of the upper link are relative, the lower link is also relative, the mountain flowing water, the white cloud and green grass are also. A song and a few feet are both number words, so this couplet is relatively neat.
Secondly, the flat and the same means that the tone of the upper and lower two is consistent or opposite, one or two is flat, and three or four is the 仄. If the tone of the upper link is flat and flat, then the tone of the next link should be ping ping and ping. Only in this way can it be catchy when it is read.
Now that we have roughly understood the story of the couplet, I think many people have begun to wonder about the couplet that the widow came out, how is Xiucai right, and what did Xiucai say that made the widow blush?
A pair is set for life
This story takes place a long time ago, when it is said that there was a relatively wealthy family in the countryside at that time, and the couple gave birth to a daughter, whose nickname was Hui Hui, because from an early age this girl showed her own intelligence, proficiency in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and was very handsome.
With the passage of time day by day, in the blink of an eye, eighteen years later, Hui Hui has grown into a big girl with a lot of admirers in the eight villages. But Hui Hui had her own ideas, she wanted to find someone who she was like-minded, and this person also wanted her to choose herself, and soon after, Hui Hui met her husband.
She and her husband, Qinser and Ming, had a very moist life, but the nightmare soon came. The husband did not know what kind of illness he had, he had only been married for two or three years, so he gave up and left Hui Hui alone, without children, and Hui Hui lived very lonely.
Spring to winter, accompanied by only an oil lamp and an endless female red, Hui Hui feels that life is simply too gray, in the blink of an eye it is a new year, the cold wind is cold, Hui Hui also began to prepare for the arrival of the New Year.
After simply preparing some ingredients, Hui Hui planned to clean her house, and after cleaning up inside and out, there was still no trace of lively atmosphere in the house.
Hui Hui felt bored and took out a pen, ink and paper, planning to write a pair of couplets, she wrote such a couplet according to her own situation: "one person one bowl and one pot", indeed, Hui Hui only has her own family, the bowl and chopsticks only need to prepare a pair, she eats a small amount, a pot is enough.
After Hui Hui wrote it, she couldn't think of how to do the next link, so she directly pasted it on the door, wanting to wait until it came out and then fill in, the fifth day of the first month of the first month, the family was still in the festive atmosphere, the village came to a show because the weather was too cold, he wanted to find a place to rest.
Just happened to see the half couplet on the door of Hui Hui's house, Xiu cai thought for a moment, and then took out the pen from the baggage and wrote down the "single sheet person", which can make Hui Hui appreciate it, what she did not expect, was actually paired by this little show, and the artistic conception was actually such a harmony.
Widow Hui Hui is very attentive to Xiu Cai, and also understands the meaning of Xiu Cai, nothing more than saying that she is also alone without a partner, very lonely, Hui Hui feels more and more shy, the two people understand for a period of time, Xiu Cai very sincerely expressed her heart, Hui Hui heard Xiu Cai's inner thoughts after blushing, nodded to Xiu Cai and said: "Want to marry." ”
After another four or five months, Xiucai and Hui Hui were married. Xiucai itself is a rich five cars, only high eight buckets, Hui Hui usually likes to read, the two live together very happy, there are many common topics, the village people say that the two are very compatible.
Since then, Xiucai and Huihui have supported each other and lived happily for a lifetime.
epilogue
I didn't expect a couplet to have such an enviable love story, in ancient times, most men and women did not meet before marriage, obeying the "orders of parents, the words of the matchmaker".
But it is unfair to destroy the right of many people to pursue happiness freely, but the story of Xiucai and the widow Huihui is talked about by people and passed on by word of mouth, perhaps, this is also another manifestation of the ancient people's yearning for love and persistent pursuit!
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