What are some funny limericks in history?

The funny limericks in history have been chewed up over and over again, and there is nothing new. Nangong Xunhuan, as a master of limerick creation in today's literary world, can surely stir up the limerick world by casually reciting a few limericks. It's a joke to laugh or cry, but it's a poem to laugh or cry.

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1

Middle Age I

When people reach middle age, they have no choice but to soak wolfberry in a thermos cup.

The skin is rough and the flesh is greasy.

You can eat five buckets of rice in one meal.

2

Middle Age II

Jujube and wolfberry thermos cup,

The general has a lot of power hidden in his belly.

The extremely smart Jun Moxiao,

can eat, drink and play.

3

Square Dance

No one can see your graceful figure.

Why not go to square dance?

Step to the beat,

After twisting your arms and twisting your butt.

4

Erli

What is the use of being born with me?

Moving bricks on the construction site is too heavy.

Nothing can be accomplished without success.

Thirty years have been like a dream.

5

Competing

If you want to compete with God,

you must first set a small goal.

For example, if you earn 100 million,

Just move your lips lightly.

6

Jianghu

Heroes should not ask for a way out,

Rogues should not look at age.

Since you are in the world of martial arts,

You must be polite.

7

A hero

Drinking wine and eating meat to be a hero,

You can drink a bottle and a half of beer.

Others laugh at me for being a light drinker,

I laugh at others for being a slow drinker.

8

Love

Occasionally open the window to listen to the birds,

I also read forbidden books behind closed doors.

I love hugging pillows and thinking about beautiful women.

Once I fall asleep, I feel like a dead pig.

Nangong Xunhuan said: Elegant poems are all the same, making people read them obscure and difficult to understand; interesting limericks can be picked out from thousands, and people can talk about them after reading them.

Don’t mistake bean bags for dry food, don’t mistake the village chief for a cadre, don’t mistake limericks for poetry, and don’t mistake Nangong Xunhuan for a cultural figure.

Compared with rhymed verses and quatrains, limericks do not have so many restrictive format specifications, which makes them less restrictive and easier to express. Because of this, if limericks want to survive in the world, they should have more connotation and value than normal poetry.

Nangong Xunwan is weak and weak, dancing and writing poems for fun, so that the lonely will not be lonely, the lonely will not be sad, the sad will not be painful, and the painful will not be heartbreaking.

Life is nothing more than being laughed at by others, and then smiling at others. There is no threshold that cannot be passed.

When I am unhappy, I read a few limericks to laugh at myself and all my unsatisfactory experiences.

May all of us who are poetic and picturesque be treated tenderly by this trivial life.

Some people may modestly call their poems limericks. In fact, some poems nowadays are simply not as good as limericks. I really don’t know whether comparing my poems to limericks is humility or pride.

On the one hand, doggerel does not pay attention to meter, does not pay attention to antithesis, does not pay attention to gorgeous words, does not pay attention to elegance, and is not elegant.

On the other hand, limericks are sincere in emotion, vivid in description, humorous in style, vivid in language, catchy, easy to read and memorize, and are loved by the common people. The limerick is a beautiful little flower in the garden of Chinese culture, especially the garden of poetry.

The person who pioneered the limerick style was named Zhang. His occupation was a limerick, and his name and place of origin were ominous. There is a high platform near his home, and poets often climb up to look into the distance and recite their poems. One winter it snowed heavily and the poets did not come out for activities, so the villagers encouraged Zhang Duyou to climb up and recite poems. Zhang Daryou not only went on stage to recite poems impromptu, but his poems also spread like wildfire and were widely circulated. Later, people called Zhang's limerick poems.

The content of the poem is: The country is in general, the well is black, the yellow dog is white, and the white dog is swollen. The general meaning is: the sky and the earth are all white, and it is difficult to tell which is the river and which is the mountain. There is a well in the distance, so you can see the dark hole in the well. The yellow dog has snow falling on it, just like a white dog. Snow fell on the white dog's body, and it looked like it was swollen. The feeling is very vivid, and he is worthy of being the founder of the oil gang.

Another version is that an official saw a poem, the content of which is: Snowflakes are floating on the ground, one foot or two inches high. When the sky clears: The broomstick uses the broom, the shovel user Use the spade. I heard that it was written by Zhang Doyou, so I asked him to write another one with the theme of being trapped in Nanyang. Zhang Zhangyou chanted: The enemy is surrounding Nanyang, with no soldiers and no food. When the city is broken, those who cry for their father will cry for their father, and those who cry for their mother will cry for their mother. The official couldn't help but laugh, feeling that it was really the work of one person.

During the Song Dynasty, a Taoist named Zhang Sanfeng was cared for by a restaurant, and his well water was turned into fine wine. One day, the owner of the house said that it would be better if there were wine grains to feed the pigs. Zhang Sanfeng wrote a limerick on the wall: The sky is not high, but people's hearts are higher than the sky. Well water is sold as wine, but pigs are not bad. From then on, the wine in the well turned into water again.

In the Ming Dynasty, a scholar named Xie Jin fell at the door of a family because of slippery rain, and a woman's laughter came from behind the curtain. Xie Jin casually recited a limerick: The spring rain is as precious as oil, and it flows all over the street. It slips and falls, and the old cow laughs. This is a vicious limerick.

Not only grassroots people write limericks, Taoist priests write limericks, literati write limericks, even emperors can write limericks. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, a group of civil and military ministers went to the grave with the emperor. When they saw the stone figures and horses on both sides of the sacred road, a Hanlin Academy scholar showed off his knowledge and said, What a good Zhong Weng! The emperor saw that he had reversed Weng Zhong into Zhong Weng, so he simply reversed four words in one breath and wrote a limerick: How can Weng Zhong be called Zhong Weng? It must be the skill of a young man under the window. Now he is not allowed to be Lin Han and is demoted to Jiangnan as a judge.

How can we talk about limericks without mentioning the Taishan Beidou in the field of limericks, the dog-meat general Zhang Zongchang.

Zhang Zongchang was born in a poor family. Before he was 15 years old, he herded cattle. Later, he traveled to Guandong and went to the Northeast to build railways for others. But one thing happened to him. He was smart and learned a foreign language while building railways: Russian.

With this characteristic, he became a Xijiao, went to Siberia to pan for gold, learned how to shoot a gun, later joined a gang, and gradually stood out from the gang.

Speaking of Zhang Zongchang, there are many interesting anecdotes, and writing limericks is one of them. Let's talk about the limericks he wrote: For example, this one about lightning:

Suddenly I saw a chain of fire in the sky, as if the Jade Emperor was about to smoke.

If the Jade Emperor does not smoke, why is he a fire chain?

Don’t laugh, it’s really vivid here.

There is also a song called Daming Lake, which writes about Qianlong’s encounter with Grandma Rong.

Daming Lake, Minghu is big,

There are lotus flowers in Daming Lake.

There is a toad on the lotus.

One poke and one jump.

The story of Qianlong’s field battle with Grandma Rong was written in plain language.

There are also those writing about Baotu Spring

Baotu Spring, Baotu Spring, is as thick as three eyes. Three streams of water, light gurgling, gurgling light gurgling.

Isn’t it interesting?

Ordinary educated people really can’t write it.

After practicing martial arts to a state of transformation and returning to simplicity, I wrote such a poem.

Also visit Mount Tai:

From a distance, Mount Tai looks dark, thin at the top and thick at the bottom. It's like turning Mount Tai upside down. The lower part is thinner and the upper part is thicker.

What an image. Does a black and thick Tarzan immediately appear in front of your eyes?

Also, Laughing at Liu Bang

I heard that Xiang Yu was so powerful that he was so frightened that Liu Bang ran away. It's not my little Zhang Liang. Grandma has already returned to Pei County.

This should be the most thorough time Liu Bang was beaten.

There is also a gale song:

I also wrote a gale song, firing cannons to blast his mother, and returning to his hometown across the country. Countless heroes come to Zhang Zongchang, and a giant whale comes to swallow the fusang.

He also directly challenged the Jade Emperor:

The Jade Emperor’s grandfather also had a surname of Zhang. Why did he embarrass me, Zhang Zongchang? If it doesn't rain for three days, we'll first demolish the Dragon King Temple and then bombard your mother with cannons.

These limericks are definitely soy sauce level.

In fact, this kind of doggerel is quite interesting, at least it is much higher than the current poems. If you don’t believe it, I will post it for everyone:

At an altitude of 10,000 meters,

On the plane in Figure 104,

No wonder the sun is twice as bright.

There are two suns inside and outside the plane!

Tireless spirit, lofty thoughts,

condensed into the movement of the symphony,

like the quiet mountains,

It’s also like the vast ocean!

Of course, there are also good poems, such as Yu Xiuhua’s which are very good.

Walking across half of China to sleep with you

In fact, sleeping with you and being slept with are almost the same, they are nothing more than the force of the collision of two bodies. It’s nothing more than the flowers that forcefully bloom

It’s nothing more than the virtual spring created by these flowers that makes us mistakenly think that life has been reopened

In most of China, everything is happening: volcanoes are erupting. , the river is drying

Some political prisoners and refugees who are not cared about

Elks and red-crowned cranes at gunpoint all the way

I went to sleep with you through a hail of bullets

I press countless nights into a dawn to sleep with you

I am countless I run into one and I go to sleep with you

Of course I will too Being led astray by some butterflies

Treating some praise as spring

Treating a village similar to Hengdian as hometown

And they

These are all necessary reasons for me to sleep with you

The good thing is that if a poem comes from the heart, it must be a good poem.

If it comes out from under the butt, it will stink.

Has no one answered the poem by Zhang Zongchang, the Shandong warlord during the Republic of China? Come, come, let everyone enjoy it!

I guess everyone has heard of this song

Do you still remember the toad on the shore of Daming Lake? Haha

Qianfo Mountain is the only one of the three major scenic spots in Jinan.

Fortunately, I didn’t travel around the country writing poems.

Although this poem is crude, it is very anti-superstitious.

The funniest thing is this one. Since it has no title, I think it can be called "The Trouble with Many Wifes".

Flashpoint turns out to be the Jade Emperor who wants to smoke and is lighting a fire. Imagination is fine.

It is easy to understand that lightning is the Jade Emperor igniting fire, and heavy snow is the Jade Emperor sifting lime.

Are you sure you have a relationship with Zhang Liang?

This song has lofty ambitions. If you think about it carefully, Liu Bang is still educated.

The so-called funny limericks, I first think of two poems related to snow.

One song is like this. A scholar, an official and a rich man were walking around to warm themselves by the fire, drink wine and recite poems. A beggar was sheltering from the snow under the window. The snow was heavy. The three people in the room decided to sing on the theme of snow. One sentence.

The scholar said: "Heavy snow has fallen to the ground." The official said: "This is the auspiciousness of the royal family." The rich man said: "What's wrong with another three years of snow?" There are exactly three sentences, one sentence is missing, and I don't know what to do. The beggar outside the window is shivering. Hearing what the rich man said made him angry, he added: "Fuck your mother's shit!" It just made a song.

There is also a poem written by Zhang Liangyou in the Tang Dynasty, "There is nothing on the river, but there is a hole on the well. The body of the yellow dog is white, and the body of the white dog is swollen." This poem vividly reveals the sudden change of the sudden heavy snowfall. The scene is interesting to read.

In short, although limericks are not as elegant as literati poems, their popular and slang taste is refreshing.

Question: What are some funny limericks in history?

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1. Literary Literary Verses

Literary verses are mostly vernacular poems, such as Hu Shi’s Two Butterflies, which can actually be attributed to A category of limericks, "Two Butterflies"

However, not all clear poems are limericks. Good poems should choose words carefully and pay attention to rhythm and elegance. For example, many quatrains of the Tang Dynasty are very simple, such as Li Bai's "Quiet Night Thoughts":

2. Vulgar limericks

Generally speaking, the limericks we think of are particularly colloquial and even somewhat Most of them are vulgar and have little artistic conception and emotion. For example, the legendary Zhang oil "Yong Snow" is quite famous: "

During the Republic of China, heroes emerged in troubled times, and many people with low education also liked to write poems. For example, Feng Yuxiang's limericks, it is said that he wrote a "Forest Protection Poem": "

Zhang Zongchang's limericks are also widely circulated, "Traveling to Mount Tai":

"Daming Lake":

3. The limericks of the Tang Dynasty are quite philosophical

There was an extraordinary figure in the Tang Dynasty called Wang Fanzhi. The limericks he wrote were deeply philosophical, and were even evaluated by later generations as having " The role of "teaching and admonishing all those who learn the Tao" or "enlightening fools and ignorant people".

Most of the ancients were illiterate and could not understand the writings of literati. On the contrary, some simple living languages ??were more easily spread. Wang Fanzhi's poems had a popular educational effect.

Zheng Zhenduo, a famous modern scholar, once cited Wang Fanzhi's two poems "I Have Ten Acres of Field" and "Loud Buns Outside the City" as examples

Zheng Zhenduo commented, "Such a direct and direct poem Although the idea of ??escaping from world-weariness to pleasure exists from time to time in our poems, it has never been expressed so boldly and joyfully by Fanzhi!"

Conclusion

Written by Bai Juyi! Poems seek to be "understood by old women". This is actually to eliminate one of the shortcomings of literati poetry. Today we have obstacles in reading classical Chinese and ancient poems. Naturally, there were many illiterate people in ancient times who also had obstacles.

In "20180518 Time and Time Collection of Zashu Library", Gao Xiaosong talked about Chinese folk operas and introduced some folk songs such as Muyu Shu collected by Zashu Library. These songs are extremely popular and easy to read. Got it, even some vulgar words.

But these were cultures that were exposed to common people with low levels of knowledge. The government and some businessmen at that time even used this channel to spread their policies and products.

@老街 Flavor

Nine questions about limericks:

1. Why is it called limericks?

The reason why limericks are called limericks is because a scholar named Zhang limericks pioneered the genre.

2. The original meaning of doggerel

Doggerel originally referred to Zhang’s doggerel poems, and later it generally refers to poems with slang, humorous, small and interesting lines.

3. Characteristics of limericks

Easy to understand, humorous, small and interesting...

4. Format of limericks

Ligerar Only rhyme is required. As for antithesis, equivalence, meter, etc., just two words: whatever!

5. The purpose of limericks

Limericks are generally written casually, mostly to ridicule or ridicule various aspects of society, and can also be used to guess.

6. The origin of doggerel

One theory is Zhang Doyou's "Ode to the Snow": There is an image on the river, a black hole on the well, the body of the yellow dog is white, and the body of the white dog is swollen; There is a saying that it is an untitled poem that Zhang Duyou casually wrote: Millions of thieves and soldiers are trapped in Nanyang, with no rescue or food. One day the city will be destroyed, and everyone will cry for their father, and they will cry for their mother.

7. Reasons for the widespread rise of limericks

Easy to write, easy to understand, easy to remember, and easy to spread!

8. The history of doggerel

Doggerel has been widely seen since Zhang Zhang’s doggerel in the mid-Tang Dynasty. But before the mid-Tang Dynasty, this type of poetry had already appeared, but it was not yet named as limerick.

9. Classic limericks

?A

The old lady is not a human being

The nine-day fairy descends to the mortal world

All raised children are thieves

Stealing flat peaches to honor their mother

?B

The county official’s real name is Wang

He wants to be the emperor

Just a click

Death

?C

A pear blossom crushes a begonia

Attracting a A big pile of perverts

Bright eyes and white teeth, cute

Legend of fame from all over the country

?D

The girl is eighteen and one branch Flowers

The fragrance is so fragrant that it weighs down the branches

It makes the visitors drunk in the garden

They lower their heads and just enjoy the peach blossoms

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The long river of history is full of waves and waves, and limericks are the sparks of folk wisdom that have been passed down orally and recorded.

Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were good at using limericks to promote themselves. First, he compiled a limerick saying that the world was about to change, and then he took out a piece of paper from the fish's mouth and wrote an answer that really matched the limerick.

The book with the most limericks written in it is "Water Margin". I just heard children singing this and that. There is a sentence describing Gao Qiu: The poor boy is Gao Qiu, and he is famous in the capital. The reason is just because he kicked the Taiwei into the crowd. Originally, the other poems were all good, but these few felt like they were not written by him. I guess they were ghostwritten by his wife when he was tired from writing and taking a break, right?

Ji Xiaolan was fighting with He Shen, a corrupt official. The emperor valued his ability but was jealous of his talent. Once he gave him wine to get him drunk and asked him to write a poem. Ji Xiaolan got drunk and wrote: There are two petals, three or four petals, five petals, six petals, seven or eight petals. He fell asleep halfway through writing. He Shen took this sentence like a doggerel and complained to the emperor, saying that Ji Xiaolan was disrespectful to the emperor. The emperor became angry and immediately went to Ji Xiaolan and asked him to write the following two sentences. At this time, Ji Xiaolan woke up from alcohol. Most of the time, I had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue writing: Nine petals, ten petals, eleven petals, flying into the grass and disappearing. I finally brought this poem to life!

The great warlord Zhang Zongchang was known as the Three Ignorant Commanders. He didn’t know how much territory he had, how many troops he had, and how many women he had. So he pretended to be elegant and published a collection of poems, writing about Mount Tai: From a distance, Mount Tai is dark, thin at the top but thick at the bottom, just like turning Mount Tai upside down, thin at the bottom but thick at the top! Ha ha!

Although limericks do not pay much attention to meter, they do not pay attention to parallelism and obliqueness. But it can be used freely, and it is very suitable for satirizing society and describing a humorous attitude towards life. Therefore, limericks are not just for people with low skills. Anyone can write them, and they are both elegant and popular. Here are a few songs to share with you.

1. Su Shi, the author of "Poetry of Braised Meat with Bamboo Shoots"

The absence of bamboo makes people vulgar, and the absence of meat makes people thin. Nice and not too thin, braised pork with bamboo shoots.

Su Shi is famous for his love of pork. The master of making Dongpo Pork even wrote an "Ode to Pork" specifically for pork. A total foodie.

2. Tang Bohu, the author of "New Year's Eve Poems"

Firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are all in other people's homes. At the end of the year, I had nothing to do, so I watched plum blossoms in Zhuliang Temple.

Tang Bohu’s self-deprecation when he was most frustrated. There is so much sadness in the humor. Only he knew the loneliness in his heart that everyone was singing about.

3. Zhang Zongchang, author of "Da Ming Lake"

Daming Lake, Ming Lake is big, and there are lotus flowers in Daming Lake. There are toads on the lotus flowers, poking and jumping around.

The only person who can write limericks with the feeling of "Yuefu" is Zhang Zongchang, the king of limericks. Reading this limerick, one can't help but think of the artistic conception of "Lotus can be picked in the south of the Yangtze River, there are fields of lotus leaves, and fish play among the lotus leaves." Some are empty and some are real, some are big and some are small, some are still and some are moving.

When it comes to limericks, Mr. Hu Shi, who has 35 doctorates, is definitely the king of limericks.

For example, Hu Shi's good friend Hu Xingfo had a big nose. One day, Hu Shi went to Hu Xingfo's house as a guest, but the owner happened to be away. Hu Shi had nothing to do, so he made a joke about Hu Xingfo's big nose.

Everyone has a nose, but the king is the most evil.

A pagoda hangs straight and two chimneys hang upside down.

Kissing is useless, but smelling fragrance is helpful.

When the south of the Yangtze River sneezes, it rains in the north of the Yangtze River.

For another example, when he went to study abroad and saw blond girls on the streets, he couldn't help but make fun of foreigners.

Not a single golden hair was left on her head.

It’s just about fighting for publicity, not about being in the limelight.

Childbirth should be restricted, and families should be free.

The title of new woman is unique and romantic.

Another time, after the July 7th Incident, Hu Shi delivered a generous patriotic speech, which was ridiculed by other literati in writing poems. After Hu Shi found out, he wrote a limerick in response to the cat's call: "Chun".

How can a cat not be called Spring? How can a cicada not sing in summer?

How can a toad not sing at night? How can any gentleman not speak?