He doesn't know the so-called, what do you mean, Zhang has to get it, and Wa has to get it?

The man didn't understand what Nongzhang meant by playing with tiles, so he casually replied: Men are born, and women are born.

This is a joke in Feng Menglong's An Overview of Ancient and Modern Times in Ming Dynasty. It means that when Yin Cen, the governor of Shaoxing, traveled, someone couldn't stop him because he couldn't escape. The satrap tied him to the government office and asked, "What do you do?" The man replied that he was a fortune teller. The satrap said, "Since she is a fortune teller, please read my wife's fortune. Is she Nongzhang or a bricklayer? "

The man didn't understand that making tiles meant having children, so he casually replied, "Zhang also makes tiles!" " The satrap saw his nonsense and put him in prison. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Taishou gave birth to a son and a daughter in the near future, and the prophet became famous.

Creation background

Talking about the past and the present is a note novel similar to Shi Shuo Xin Yu. Feng Menglong collected many jokes from official history, unofficial history, note novels and folk oral literature, mocking all kinds of social bad habits, bad habits and chronic diseases in a playful tone. Even several novels, such as Ji Ling, Absurdity and Rarely, made many innuendos to the society at that time.

Feng Menglong, who is in his forties, was just a scholar when he wrote Tan Kao in Ancient and Modern Times. He and a group of depressed friends organized a "rhyme club" in his hometown. He looked at the world and felt something in his chest. When he is angry, he laughs and amuses himself. "Tan" used to mean "the present", but at the same time it didn't mean to heal the world.