Couplets, also known as door couplets, spring couplets, pairs, couplets, etc., integrate literature, wisdom and humor, and are a unique literary genre in the treasure house of traditional Chinese culture.
There are only two sentences in the couplet, but it is very skillful, and it must meet the requirements of equal number of words, the same part of speech, related meanings, and relative equality.
Because of this, the couplet became a popular intellectual entertainment, and everyone from the aristocracy to the common people liked to use it to compete with each other.
There are many stories about couplets in history, and one of the more interesting ones is the beautiful story of a talented man and a wise woman who got married because of the couplet.
After all, in ancient China, there has always been an arranged marriage concept of "the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker", and it is even more common for men and women to not know who the other party is and what they look like before they get married.
Therefore, some women who strive to break free from the shackles of the world will choose to examine a person through the mental way of couplets, and bravely find their own happiness.
That's the story we're going to present today.
It is said that in the Ming Dynasty, there was a scholar in a township below Ji'an Mansion, whose family was relatively poor, and in order to change this situation, he had been studying hard since he could remember.
It's just that the road to the imperial examination is not easy, and he has only been able to get a show in the examination after studying hard for more than ten years. Because he devoted most of his time to studying, he was almost thirty years old and had not yet started a family.
In this case, the family members tried to help him solve his personal problems as soon as possible.
And it just so happened that there was a relatively solid family in the town, and the old couple only gave birth to one girl for some reason.
The old couple was very good to this daughter, and asked her husband to teach her chess, piano, calligraphy and painting since she was a child, so this daughter also became a knowledgeable person when she grew up. It's just that this girl's marriage worries the old couple a lot.
Because her daughter is good at poetry and books, she has always insisted on finding a talented man as her husband, and this time she saw that her daughter had become an old girl of twenty-five or sixteen, and her marriage had not been settled, so of course she was very anxious.
In this way, the parents of the two parties learned about the situation of the scholar and the girl by coincidence, so they had the idea of getting married, so they went back to communicate, and made an appointment to meet the man and woman on a suitable date.
Xiucai because of his perennial study, which has led to more and more hardship in his family, for his dream of studying, it is better to have a solid family to help share it;
The girl also heard about the talent of this showman, and was also interested in getting acquainted with him, so they all agreed to meet.
On the appointed day, the matchmaker took Xiucai to the girl's house to meet on a blind date, both parties are scholars, naturally there is a topic to talk about, the two talked about life ideals from poetry and songs, and the more they talked, the more speculative they became.
When the two were chatting about couplets, the girl had an idea and said to Xiucai how about you in the couplet.
Xiucai also knew that this was the other party's talent to test his talents, so he responded calmly.
The girl then pointed to a cluster of butterfly flowers in the garden and said the upper couplet she had just thought of: "Butterfly flowers and butterflies", and asked Xiucai to make the next couplet on the spot.
This uplink comes at the right time, although it is simple but it has a mystery. Because the "butterfly" compound has a different meaning, that is, this butterfly is not the other butterfly, so it is required that the next link must also have the same correspondence.
The talented Xiucai may have been carried away by the beautiful woman in front of him, so when he first heard this link, his head was blank.
The girl looked at Xiucai who was dazed on the spot, and was also a little disappointed, and couldn't help sighing: "The little girl is a little tired today, so go back for the time being." Then he went back to the house.
The scholar who was annoyed heard the girl's command to ask the maid to take the mirror to remove her makeup, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said that I had a link, that is: "The beauty is reflected in the beauty mirror." ”
used the word "beauty" to refer to the girl, not only to the next couplet, but also to praise people in disguise.
This made the girl sitting in the room turn her anger into joy. This nerd is still quite talented, so he is still very satisfied with this marriage.
The talented and beautiful woman has a beautiful marriage, and the parents of both parties are also very happy to organize the wedding for them.
The guests dispersed, and the scholar who had drunk too much wine staggered to the new house, and when he lifted the bride's hijab and was ready to go to bed, the girl became interested again, and pulled the scholar and said that he would go to sleep again.
So the girl said Shanglian: "The water is high and the twin peaks show." ”
The scholar thought for a long time, looked at the girl's red cheeks reflected by the red candle, and happily replied with a wonderful pair: "The river surface is paved with ten thousand glows." ”
The girl was very satisfied with the scholar's downlink, so she took the initiative to put out the candle and loosen the tent, and pulled the scholar to rest.
The girl is a good housekeeper and solves the worries of the scholars. The scholar also successfully passed the imperial examination later, and the marriage between the two was happy ever since.