The couplet is a treasure of the traditional culture of the Han nationality, which not only has the artistic charm of calligraphy, but also has the beauty of neatness. Ping Qian rhymes, the taste is very meaningful, from ancient times to the present day is a lot of literati and ink writers like to see, now to the modern Chinese people also like couplets, whenever the Spring Festival, every door of the door is posted with the Spring Festival couplets.
Not only is the Spring Festival sought after by the Chinese people, the couplet also runs through the important days such as the Chinese wedding, the opening of the business, the funeral, the birthday celebration and so on to express the feelings, the ancients also used the couplet to express the aspirations, such as Yang Bangyi would rather die unyieldingly, and call "rather be a ghost of the Zhao family, not for his ministers"! Let's take a look at the wonderful use of the couplet.
1. Tang Bohu's thatched toilet couplets have been passed down through the ages
Tang Bohu wrote a couplet for a thatched house, which was beyond the reach of countless talents, and he sighed that he was worthy of being the first of the four talents in the south of the Yangtze River, and even the county order was admired.
At that time, there was a rich local tyrant, spent a lot of money to build a wealthy courtyard, and the house also built a thatched house, the thatched house was extremely luxurious, in order to show that their thatched house is unique and extraordinary, the local tyrant went around looking for someone to write couplets, but to write couplets to the thatched house, people were discouraged from hearing it, and refused again and again.
Unexpectedly, the local tyrant heard that Tang Bohu was selling calligraphy and paintings on the street, so he beckoned his subordinates to invite him to his home, and after hearing the request to write couplets to the thatched house, Tang Bohu got up and was about to leave
After being full of wine and food, Tang Bohu borrowed wine to write the couplet, "And it seems that the guest is affectionate, and he will not regret it in the end, Mo Dao This thing is useless, and it is more protective of flowers when turned into spring mud." "Xialian" The heroes of the world came here to bow their heads and pay homage, and the chaste women of the world came in to undress and untie their skirts. For a while, everyone was amazed, and even the county order was very admirable, the 50 taels of the local tyrant were really not in vain.
Second, Ji Xiaolan skillfully couplets the eunuchs
Ji Xiaolan, a famous minister of the Qing Dynasty, is also a lover of couplets, and his level is extremely high. One day, Qianlong was interested, and asked his eunuchs to send it to Ji Xiaolan, and when he went to Ji Xiaolan's house, the eunuchs in Ji Xiaolan's house saw the cold world, Ji Xiaolan was wearing a cotton coat to roast the fire, but he still held the fan in his hand, he couldn't stand Ji Xiaolan's pretentious posture, and he moved his mind, so he gave Ji Xiaolan a couplet: "Little scholar, wearing winter clothes, holding a summer fan, have you ever read a book in the Spring and Autumn Period?"
Ji Xiaolan who is a person, how can he not read the taste of Shanglian, so he asked where the eunuch is from? The eunuch replied that he is a southerner, Ji Xiaolan listened to the voice, and immediately made a couplet, "Old eunuch, born in the south, go to the north, that thing still cares?" and properly shot back at the eunuch. Without saying a word, he directly dropped the exam questions given by Qianlong, and left without looking back.
Third, the coffin shop has a couplet
Ji Xiaolan used wisdom to alleviate her embarrassing situation, too witty, from the above two stories we see the charm of couplets, good couplets can not only shine, but also turn defeat into victory, but today we are going to talk about the couplet scene is in the coffin shop, I'm afraid it's not easy to write couplets for the coffin shop, right?
Generally speaking, coffin shops don't dare to go around soliciting customers to make money, and it's good to attract people who hate them and don't say that they don't want to be planned, even if they are afraid of the government. But after all, it's a subsistence business, and it's always unbearable to never get in. The coffin business is different from ordinary business, it is all for the deceased, and the special industry leads to the inability to publicize, and the purchase of family members depends on personal wishes.
The coffin shop in the story is located on the corner of a street, usually no one has passed, let alone selling coffins, the business is also miserable, and they are about to be forced to close
The scholar read the upper link of the coffin shop owner, and after thinking about it again, he wrote the lower link of "I have eternal life" in an atmospheric manner, which is wonderful and expresses that the life span of a person cannot exceed a thousand years, but coming to my coffin shop can guarantee people's "longevity"
Sure enough, after the couplet came out, business was significantly better than before, and many people in the neighborhood who did white things came to the coffin shop to buy coffins and buy paper money, all because of the impression given by this couplet, and the scholar who wrote the couplet also received a lot of praise in the local area
At this time, the owner of another coffin shop on the street also heard about it and invited him to write couplets to help his business and invite him with a lot of money. The scholar wrote an incomprehensible Shanglian, which was "afraid that the business would be too good"
The boss is not happy now, I do this business or not, and then the scholar calmly wrote down the next link, "I hope the employer does not come", although the boss is puzzled, but still posted out, the next day after the doubt, the guests actually became more, in fact, this is the use of people's rebellious psychology, the more people do nothing, people also want to do. Since then, this coffin shop has also prospered and become more and more famous
In fact, the couplets are suitable for all ages, there is no distinction between rich and poor, and the same is true for the couplets of the coffin shop, birth, old age, sickness and death are common things, and the people have sadness and melancholy when they hear it. The most important thing is to comfort the bereaved person
"I'm afraid the business is too good, but I hope the employer doesn't come. It is a good wish that people will not suffer the pain of the death of their loved ones, such couplets naturally also make people curious, rebellious, and difficult to think of, of course, there are many couplets for the coffin shop
summary
Couplet is the art of language, good couplet can make food in a good direction of transformation, can also change a person's situation, couplet in-depth study there are more places to study, couplet is the treasure of traditional Chinese culture, born in China we should inherit the traditional culture to learn couplet, good couplet, to be a belly of poetry and calligraphy from China, there is a cultural heritage of people
Couplets are one of the treasures of our traditional culture, but most people disdain them, unable to learn this profound traditional culture, let alone understand the origin and meaning.
On the contrary, there are countless people who worship foreigners, and there is no slightest reverence for our traditional culture, and if we, as Chinese, cannot even inherit and preserve our own cultural traditions well, then learning more foreign cultures will only make us lose ourselves even more.
We should cultivate more interest in traditional culture, don't let the excellent traditional culture lose its shine, start to learn and understand couplets from now on, you will find the fun in it, it will immerse you in it, this is the attraction of culture, the charm of culture.