Why did Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, try the Spring Festival couplets case, and why did different judgments lead to lawsuits?

As the saying goes, maybe a punctuation mark will give people different meanings, and so it is in ancient times. It is recorded in the book that Zhu Yuanzhang ordered every household to write couplets to welcome the new year during the Spring Festival when he established Nanjing as his capital. But no one can imagine that a lawsuit will start with couplets. This matter reached the ears of Bird. Upon hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately tried Zhu Yuanzhang's "Spring Festival couplets case" from Ming Taizu. Let's see what is going on.

It was not known to the people at the beginning. Nandu has Yingtianfu. In the evening, Zhu Yuanzhang went to the magistrate's yamen alone, put on the magistrate's official uniform, and then started the trial, bringing both the plaintiff and the defendant. The people in the yamen ran over two people.

Seeing these two scholars, I was puzzled. Since it is a "couplet case", it doesn't hurt to end with a couplet first. Let the plaintiff tell himself first, what is the couplet he wrote? The scholar said that Zhu Yuanzhang's first couplet was a cloud lock on the ground, and the peak was raised. This scholar is also brilliant. A scholar is quick-witted, and it is difficult to cheat a bachelor.

The defendant, a businessman, said a pair of couplets for a penny. The businessman's words made Zhu Yuanzhang feel a little meaningful and asked him what couplets he had written. I saw several witnesses come out. The first one was written by a restaurant owner,' Busy for the name, busy for profit, busy for leisure, have a cup of tea; Work hard, work hard, have fun in pain, and pour another glass of wine. The second is that farmers want sons, written by Li Songer, a wooden-footed teacher; Gong Pang, two rabbits, has a dragon head and a dragon body.

But because of the different sentences, I finally made a joke. The story of Zhu Yuanzhang personally trying couplets also spread.