Couplets are a time-honored traditional Chinese culture that emphasizes the neatness of couplets and the harmony of tones. It is usually written on paper, cloth, bamboo, or wood. The familiar Spring Festival couplets are also a type of couplet.
In ancient times, when mobile phones were not available, the leisure activities of the ancients included couplets. Of course, don't underestimate the couplet. A good couplet, as well as a level battle of couplets, cannot be ignored.
Somewhere in the south of the Yangtze River in ancient times, there was a famous talented woman with a prominent family background and great talent. She is proficient in poetry and singing, and is also good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Her fame, like looking for plums in the winter snow, does not see its shape but smells its fragrance.
A talented woman is born with a sense of detachment and is unwilling to entrust her life to those who are rich and successful.
What she desires is a soulmate whose soul matches her talents. So, she put down the title of champion and proposed the "Couplet Recruitment Parent", hoping to find a talent who is close to her heart.
However, talented women are arrogant and look down on those vulgar people. She hopes to have a husband who can match her.
She was determined to use pairing to find the other half who made him fall in love, so she proposed a "couplet recruitment". As soon as the news came out, talented people from all over the surrounding area flocked to her house, hoping to get the favor of this beauty.
Although there are many talented people, there are very few suave people, and it is difficult to make talented women instantly moved.
After the selection of the matchmaker, three scholars with good talent and appearance were selected. They are all young masters from famous families, but the talented girl still wants to find out by herself.
On the Jinlian, she splashed ink and wrote the couplet: "The spring in the cave is endless", this couplet seems to hint at her endless expectations for her sweetheart and her yearning for beautiful love.
The scholars crowded in front of the courtyard of the talented girl, whispering, or grinding their pens, racking their brains to make a wonderful couplet.
Two of the three said more than a dozen couplets, some depicting the magnificence of mountains and rivers, and some lamenting the passage of time, but none of them won her favor.
At dusk, two of them were in a state of low spirits, and the other, who had been silent, walked forward slowly, only to see him dressed plainly, with a delicate face and a determined gaze.
As he walked forward, he softly read out the following couplet: "The pine pine on the peak is forever." This half-sentence couplet not only conforms to the artistic conception of the first couplet, but also reveals a long and delicate emotion, which makes people feel excited.
When the talented girl heard this, her face immediately turned red, and she felt that she had met a bosom friend, and she couldn't help but admire the talent of this scholar.
A glimpse of the leopard in the tube, you can see how compatible the two are. After some communication, the two chatted more and more, and the woman's parents were also quite satisfied with the scholar.
In the following days, the scholar's talent and character were gradually recognized by the talented girl's parents, and the tacit understanding between the two was even more than before. In the end, they decided to join forces to form their own small family.
As a result, the marriage of a talented girl and a scholar has become a beautiful local legend. Since then, the talented girl no longer faces the cool breeze of the pavilion alone, but can join hands with her husband to enjoy the moon and listen to the wind, adding a lot of leisure and joy.
They are not the only ones with such beautiful stories. It is said that when Wang Anshi entered Beijing to take the exam. It happened to be the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, which was so beautiful that Wang Anshi couldn't help but stop and admire the exquisite lanterns.
Walking and walking, he walked to a place where gongs and drums were noisy, and when he got closer, he saw that it was a family sticking a couplet to recruit relatives. He saw that the upper link was: "The marquee lights, the lights go away, the lights go out and the horses stop". He thought about it for a long time and didn't come up with it, and left.
But at the time of the exam. Suddenly I thought: "Flying Tiger Flag, Flying Tiger, Flying Tiger, Flying Tiger Hide." When he was named on the gold list, passed by that family, and still didn't find a son-in-law, he presented his next couplet, and was favored by the other party and became a son-in-law.
Although the truth of the story is difficult to determine, the true talent and beauty will always meet, know and love each other at the destined moment. And the couplet, this romantic culture, still influences people today.