It's good to say a joke with sour taste and vinegar.

During the May Day holiday, I watched the old TV series Xiaojing Hutong. Joe mixed garlic in his neck and mouth and teased Wu Qi, saying that remarriage was a rare good thing and provoked contradictions. In fact, this kind of sour and vinegar joke has a long history among the people.

? There is a short story in Yabanter written by the master of Fubaizhai in Ming Dynasty. According to the story, in the Song Dynasty, Xue Jiansu's family had three daughters. The eldest daughter married Ouyang Xiu and the second daughter married Wang Gongchen. Later, Ou lost his wife and married the third daughter of the Xue family. Brother-in-law Wang Gongchen joked that "the old son-in-law becomes a new son-in-law, and the big uncle is a little uncle."

? Ouyang Xiu had a friend named Liu Yuanfu, who remarried in the following year. Ouyang Xiu wrote a poem mocking the legend that Liu Chen and Ruan Zhao of the Han Dynasty went to Wutai Mountain to collect medicine and get a fairy: "The fairy family is a thousand years old, but it's so busy that the floating world is empty. The new flowers in the cave don't smile, and Liu Lang is old Liu Lang today. " Liu Yuan-fu didn't like it, so he sought revenge.

? One day, Ou, Wang and Liu got together. The old father said, "Once upon a time, there was an old pedant who taught children to read. When reading Mao Shi, he told the students that the word' snake' was pronounced' aunt', so remember." The next day, students saw beggars playing snakes on the road and arrived at school very late. The pedant asked the reason, and the student said, "Just now, I met someone with a snake on the road, so I stopped to watch and saw that he took (married) an aunt (snake) and another aunt (snake), so he missed class." Ouyang Xiu laughed when he heard it.

? Su Shi and Zhang Xian, contemporaries of Ouyang Xiu, were similarly elegant and ridiculous.

? Zhang Xian and Zhang Ziye, a famous ci writers in Song Dynasty, were called "Zhang Sanying". He is much older than Su Shi, but they are good friends. They once participated in the famous "Meeting of Six Guests" together.

? About Zhang Xian and Su Shi, their poems are in harmony. The most famous one is the poem written by Zhang Xian when he married his wife at the age of 8. When Zhang Xian married his 18-year-old wife, Su Shi went to congratulate him and asked Zhang Xian how he felt. Zhang Xian immediately wrote a poem:

I was eighty and eighteen, and Qing was a beauty and my hair was white.

It's the same grade as Qing, only separated by a flower in the middle.

Su Shi answered:

Eighteen brides and eighty lang, with grey hair and red makeup.

a pair of nights in a mandarin duck quilt, and a pear tree overwhelms a begonia.

"A pear tree beats a begonia" is a folk joke widely used in note novels since the Ming Dynasty. The earliest version found at present comes from Jiang Yikui's Yao Shan Tang Wai Ji in the Ming Dynasty. There is no definite textual research on whether it was written by Su Shi. But it's true that Su Shi and Zhang Xian sang the same song about the latter's concubinage.

? Su Shi heard that Zhang Xian still bought a concubine at the age of eighty-five, so he wrote "Zhang Ziye still heard of buying a concubine to write poems about ancient times". The poem said:

Mr. Jin Li is crazy about himself, so don't bully his eyebrows.

The poet is old, Yingying is here, and Yan Yan is busy when the son returns.

Under the column, the prime minister still has teeth, and the secretariat of Jiangnan has no guts.

I have been an Chang-ke all my life, and sent Peng Xuan to the back hall.

? Mr. Dongpo is indeed a talented person, and he has quoted a lot of circumstantial evidence. Here, "Shu Gu" refers to the magistrate of Hangzhou at that time, and "Mr. Jinli" refers to Zhang Xian, which comes from Du Fu's "Mr. Jinli's black corner towel". "The poet is old and Yingying is here, but Yan Yan is busy when the son returns". "Yingying" comes from Yuan Zhen's Biography of Yingying, which tells the story of Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying. "Swallow a swallow" comes from the Mao Chuan of "Swallow a Swallow in a Style of Poetry": Wei Zhaung's ginger was sent to my concubine. "Xiang Jun under the column" refers to Zhang Cang in the Han Dynasty, who was the censor in the Qin Dynasty and was in charge of the books under the column. When he was prime minister in Han dynasty, when he was old, he had no teeth in his mouth, and he only ate human milk and had many wives and concubines. "Jiangnan Secretariat" refers to Zhang Youxin, who once said: "I don't want to be an official, but I have a beautiful wife, and my life is enough." These allusions are all about Zhang Xian's romantic life. The last two sentences are also borrowed from the biography of Han Yu Zhang: Yu Zhang Feng An Changjun, who has two disciples Peng Xuan and Dai Chong. Yu Zhang loves Dai Chong, and once took him to eat in the inner hall of the house. As opposed to the women in the house, he managed to stay in control at the dead of night. And Yu Zhang kept Peng Xuan at a respectful distance from him. Every time he met, he talked about classics and righteousness, drank a glass of wine, and never went to the hall. Here, Yu Zhang compares Zhang Xian and Peng Xuan speaks for himself.

? Zhang Xian still buys concubines when he is in his eighties, which will really make people feel that he is a romantic. Although Su Shi respects Zhang Xian, it is quite critical to meet this matter. After Zhang Xian saw this poem, he was probably unhappy, so he replied: Worry is like a mullet who knows the night forever, and laziness is busy with butterflies for spring. It means that my wife is gone, and the night is lonely and difficult. Marrying a concubine is just to comfort loneliness, not because of romantic nature. After seeing Zhang Xian's two poems, Su Shi knew why and understood Zhang Xian, and the bad feelings between the two men were cleared up.

? Jiang Yikui's Outside Discipline of Yaoshan also recorded the story that Zhao Mengfu expressed his idea of concubinage to his wife Guan Daosheng with a poem: "I am a bachelor, and you are a wife. I don't know, Tao Xueshi has peach leaves and peach roots, and Su Xueshi has morning clouds and dusk clouds. I'll marry more Wu Ji and Yue Nv. What's too much? You are over forty years old, so just occupy Yutangchun. " Guan Daosheng knew the elegance by hearing the string songs, and he understood it at a glance. He wrote this poem "I Nong Ci": Er Nong I Nong, which is full of emotions, feelings in many places, and hot as fire. Twist a piece of mud, shape me, break us both together, and mix with water. Twist another one, and mold another me. I have you in the mud, and you have me in the mud. I was born in the same bed as you, and I died in the same bed! After Zhao Mengfu got the word, he "stopped laughing" and never mentioned concubinage again. Some people here think that Mr. Tao should be Wang Xianzhi, a Wang Xueshi, and Mr. Su is naturally Su Dongpo. That's another story.