59 antithetical couplets with neat antithesis

Before liberation, there was a temple in Xiangxiang, Hunan. The temple gate is dilapidated, and the bodhisattva is peeling off all over. However, there are still an endless stream of lottery players. One year, on the first day of the first month, a couplet was posted on the temple gate:

If I had spirit, I wouldn't be piling up bones and muscles everywhere. Forget it. You know, there are lazy parts like thrift.

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During the Qianlong period, the Ministry of Industry in Beijing caught fire, and the emperor ordered the migrant worker Jin Jian to rebuild it. At that time, there was a saying in Beijing:

Ministry of Water Fire, Gold, Great Construction

This couplet contains Jin Mu's five elements of fire, water and soil, so no one can explain it clearly for a long time. A China book tells people, "No one can write this couplet except my hometown of Ji Xiaolan". So he came to ask Ji Xiaolan. Ji thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "It's not difficult, but it's harmful to come out. What do you think, sir? " Zhongshu quickly said, "Nothing, nothing, that's right." Ji Xiaolan and right way:

What is the king of books in the south and the north?

Zhongshu left in disgrace and was spread everywhere as a joke in Beijing for a time.

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