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No thief steals such a couplet
According to legend, one year in the lunar month, Wang Xizhi moved from his hometown in Shandong to Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province to settle down, and the joy of housewarming was also the celebration of the New Year, and he couldn't help but write a couplet:
Spring breeze, spring rain, spring color
New year, new scenery, new home
This couplet is embedded with three "spring" characters and three "new" characters, which is very apt to show the scene of "new spring". Satisfied, he told his family to stick it to the door.
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Unexpectedly, because Wang Xi's calligraphy was admired by the people of the time, as soon as this couplet was posted, it was taken away by people at night.
The family told Wang Xizhi that Wang Xizhi could understand the feelings of the unveiler, so he was not angry, and wrote another pair of pens for the family to post again.
This one reads:
The warbler cries in the north and the mountains are green
Yanyu is adjacent to Wanhu in the south
This couplet is full of spring vitality, and the battle is also very neat.
Who knew that when Tianming saw it, it was taken away again.
This day was Chinese New Year's Eve, and the next day was the first day of the new year, and seeing that the Spring Festival was pasted in front of every house in the neighborhood, but the front of her own house was empty, and Mrs. Wang urged her husband to think of a solution.
Wang Xizhi thought about it, smiled slightly, and wrote again:
Blessings are unparalleled
Complete one's misery
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The family was shocked, and the wife was even more puzzled, but Wang Xizhi smiled and said nothing, and asked his son to just post it.
Sure enough, someone came to steal it at night, but when I looked under the moonlight, I saw that this couplet was too unlucky. Although Wang Xizhi is a master calligrapher, he can't take away this couplet full of dangerous prophecy.
The person who came to steal it had to sigh and slipped away in the night.
At dawn on the morning of the first day of the new year, there were many people in front of Wang Xi's house, and everyone was very puzzled by the fact that Shusheng wrote this couplet.
At this time, Wang Xizhi went out to pick up the pen and added three words under the original couplet. When you look at it, the couplet becomes:
Blessing is still coming
Misfortune does not go alone yesterday
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How to do happy events and funerals together?
Once upon a time, there was a showman who died suddenly on the morning of his wedding, so he had to do the funeral together. According to custom, couplets should be posted on funerals and happy events, and Xiucai made a difficulty, at this time, a literati stood up and wrote such a couplet:
When you are mourning, you are a groom, and you are crying? Laughing?
Thinking about it, I can't cry or laugh
Resignation Hall, into the cave room, into the yes? Retreat?
After further consideration, there is a dilemma
This couplet truly depicts the ambivalence of the show at that time.
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Add a little pen and ink to extinguish your arrogance
Once upon a time, there was a master of Jinshi, who was domineering and domineering. One Spring Festival, in order to show off, he posted such a couplet on his door:
Father Jinshi, son Jinshi, father and son are Jinshi
Mrs. Mother-in-law, Mrs. Daughter-in-law, Mrs. Mother-in-law
Coincidentally, there was a poor talent in the town who passed by the door of Jinshi's house and saw this couplet. He looked at it with disdain, then with a smug smile.
In the evening, when he saw that there was no one around, he quietly added some strokes to the couplet.
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Early the next morning, the front of Jinshi's door was full of people watching the excitement, they were talking and laughing, and there were many discussions, and everyone praised: "Good change!" Well changed! ”
The noise outside the door alarmed Master Jinshi, and he hurriedly opened the door, and when he saw it, he stumbled a few times.
It turned out that the couplet in front of Jinshi's door had been changed to this by Xiucai:
The father enters the earth, the son enters the earth, and the father and the son enter the earth
婆失夫,媳失夫,婆媳均失夫
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That's all I have
One day, a wealthy businessman asked Tang Bohu for a couplet, and Tang happily waved it:
Business is Lucky Star Chinese Restaurant
Wealth flows like water
The businessman had not read much since he was a child, and after reading the couplet, he felt that the taste of making a fortune was not strong, and asked for a rewrite.
Tang Bohu learned that the reason why this rich businessman got rich was because of some unknown means, so he rewrote a couplet to ridicule it:
The business in front of the door is like a mosquito team entering and leaving on a summer night
At night, copper coins should be touched more and more like lice in winter
Unbeknownst to him, the merchant applauded and loved this nondescript couplet.
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Other wonderful couplets
Difficult to connect
Visit the West Lake to mention the tin kettle, the tin kettle drops the West Lake, and the tin pot is a pity
Sell blue bottles in Nanping, and get rare blue bottles in Nanping
Nantong Prefecture is in the north, and the state is in the north, and the state is in the north
East Pawnshop, West Pawnshop, East Pawnshop, Pawnshop Stuff
Wangjiang Tower, Wangjiang Flow, Wangjiang Tower, Wangjiang Tower, Jianglou Eternity, River Flow
Printing the moon well, printing the moon shadow, printing the moon shadow in the printing moon well, the moon well for ten thousand years, the moon shadow for ten thousand years
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The upper hook is old, the lower hook is the test, the old test is the child, and the child is old
One person is big, two people are the sky, the sky is great, and the favor is greater than the sky
If there are insects in the water, it will be turbid, and if there are fish in the water, then fish, the water will be water, and the rivers and lakes will be miao.
Under the wood is the foundation, above the wood is the end, the wood is wood, the pine and cypress are in the forest.
Freezing rain sprinkled people at two o'clock in the east and three o'clock in the west
Cut and divide the passengers, seven knives and eight knives
The mouth of the world and the mouth of the sky are determined to swallow Wu
The king of the people, the king of the people, the king of the side, intends to be in charge
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Feng two horses tamed three horses, Feng tamed five horses, princes
Yi has someone Yin no one, Yi Yin has one person Yuan Zai
Idle in the door
Thinking of the heart of Ueda
Silkworms are insects in the world
Hung is a riverside bird
The sun and the moon are bright and dark, the mountain wind rises from the blue, the stone skin is still strong, and the ancient trees are not dead.
But how should people come, thousands of miles of heavy meaning, eternal words of yellow cranes, and the hearts of the soldiers.
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Homophonetic couplet
Tuning the piano, tuning the new tune, tuning the tune to tune the subtlety
Plant flowers, plant all kinds of things, and grow all kinds of fragrances
Chaochao Chaochao Chaochao
Long long long disappear
The sea is facing and falling
The puffy clouds are long, long, long, long, long
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The palindrome is reversed
People have passed the Great Buddha Temple
The temple Buddha is bigger
Virtuous and blessed
There are many good people in the earth
Monk tour Yunyin Temple
The temple is hidden and wandering monks
The same is true of the willow among people
It is like a person in the willow
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Fog lock mountain head mountain lock fog
The sky is even water, and the tail water is even the sky
The phoenix falls and the phoenix falls
Beads come together
The mountain spring on Jingquan Mountain is quiet
The pond is clear
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Overlapping couplets
The sky is near the top of the mountain, and the sky is farther to the mountainside
The moon floats on the surface of the water and the moon sinks to the bottom of the water
Overlapping mountain meandering ring loops
High and low, the trees are dingdingdong, and the spring is dingdong
Look at the mountains and mountains
Looking at the water, the water is clear
Wind bamboo green bamboo, wind turn green bamboo bamboo turn wind
White plum in the snow, white plum in the snow, plum in the snow
The Buddha's feet are clear and the spring is floating, fluttering, and floating down two jade belts
The source of living water bubbles, bubbles, and a string of pearls emerges