Interesting couplets of place names

It is said that Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty was good at writing poems and couplets. One day, when he and Ji Xiaolan, a former court minister, went out to Beijing for a private visit, they made a couplet of place names, which read: Nantong, North Tongzhou, North Tongzhou runs through the north and south. ? Tongzhou, which is connected to the north, is in the suburbs of Beijing, Nantong is in Jiangsu, and two Tongzhou, one south and one north, are connected by canals. You need self-discipline and connections. Although Ji is witty, it is difficult to get out the couplets with both place names and directions in the first part, and I don't know how to be relative at the moment. Just passing by a pawnshop, I remembered that there were many pawnshops in Beijing, so I had a brainwave, that is, I went out and made a couplet. East pawnbroker, west pawnbroker and east pawnbroker are things. ? East, west, north and south, but failed to place names. However, also calculate Ji Xiaolan used his quick wits, reluctant.

Place name couplets are as difficult as name couplets, because the place names embedded in couplets not only have their positions, but also have a pun meaning in couplets. For example, the Gan Long Business Association? Nantong North Tongzhou? Tong Tong is not only the place name of Tongzhou, but also has the significance of transportation and communication.

Look at the couplets below. Xianju Tiantai Yunyue, Longyou Lishui Yuhuan Mountain. ? Lianzhong Xianju, Tiantai, Yunhe, Longyou, Lishui and Yuhuan are all place names in Zhejiang Province. ? White chickens crow in Baixi during the day and yellow dogs crow in Huangyan at dusk. ? Lianzhong Baixi and Huangyan are also mainland place names in Zhejiang Province (Baixi is now Yueqing County); ? Xikouxi Luoshu, Haimen Cape Begonia. ? Lianzhong Xikou is the town name of Fenghua, Zhejiang Province and the hometown of Chiang Kai-shek, while Haimen is a county in Jiangsu Province, facing Chongming Island in Shanghai across the sea. In the first example above, Xianju and Longyou not only represent place names, but also have the pun meaning of life and play; In the second and third cases, Baixi, Huangyan, Xikou and Haimen are not only place names, but also make the upper and lower couplets look very appropriate in color and phonology.

There are some difficult absolute place name pairs, one of which belongs to Xishan, Wuxi. Wuxi is a famous city in Jiangsu Province, which is as famous as Suzhou and Yangzhou. There is a famous Xishan in Wuxi, but Xishan is not a Wuxi mine, so it is named only because it is in Wuxi. So someone took it? Wuxi Xishan Wuxi? As the first part, I want the second part. The first part has seven words, but there are two words with nothing, two mountains and three tin words. No one can do the second part for a while. Many years have passed, and it was first reported that someone finally made a couplet: Pinghu is a horizontal lake. ? Lianzhong Pinghu is a county in Zhejiang Province, which is famous for its rich watermelons. Literally, this bottom line is relatively neat relative to the top line, but is there a lake in Pinghu? Is the lake the name of the lake? From the point of view of place names, it still seems far-fetched. Similar to this couplet, there is the following couplet. The original couplet was entitled Longwang Temple near Baisha, Changsha. Lian Yue:? Changde Deshan has virtue, while Changsha has sand, water and no sand. ? What is its artistic conception? Wuxi Xishan? Similarly, Changde and Changsha are the names of cities in Hunan Province, while Deshan and Shashui are the names of mountains and rivers.

Some people associate some place names in Guizhou province with place names, such as? Pingba Le Jia has three ears and Gaopo has six branches. 、? Guanling Xun Mei follows Huishui, inserting willows along the river to Meitan? 、? Longli is long, and Fenggangfeng lives in Ziyun City? In Lianzhong, Pingba, Le Jia, Sansui, Gaopo, Mu Yi, Liuzhi, Guanling, Huishui, Yanhe, Meitan, Longli, Huanggeshu, Fenggang and Ziyun are all place names in Guizhou.

I remember this couplet when I read it. The couplet is:? Ma Gu intended to marry Hang Lang, but was stopped by Jingting. ? In Lianzhong, Magu, Hanglang (Gallery) and Jingting are the three mountain names of Xuanzhou. Magu Mountain is in the east, Hanglang Mountain is in the west, and there is a Jingting Mountain in the middle, which seems to deliberately block the feelings between Magu and Hanglang Mountain. These three mountains are famous local tourist attractions, known as? Ma Gu Xiao? 、? Snow on the balcony? And then what? Jingting misty rain? Good name. For a long time, until many years later, a tourist from Wuhan took the scenic spots of three towns in Wuhan: Xia Tian Town (formerly known as Hanyang), Yellow Crane Tower and Parrot Island as the next link. The bottom line is: The yellow crane has no intention of parrots, so why pass it on in summer? ? Because its geographical location is also between the Yellow Crane Tower and Nautilus Island in summer (Hanyang), is there? Summer biography? It's called.

1963, Guo Moruo once added a couplet to the newly completed Deyue Building in Heilongtan, Lijiang, Yunnan, saying: Longtan reflects thirteen peaks, and the hidden dragon flies to the ground in the sky; Yushan is half a mile long, with jet as the body and sapphire as the god. ? Lianzhong, Longtan and Yushan are the names of local landscapes, and Longtan is the Black Dragon Pool in Lijiang. The pool water is crystal clear, and the reflection of thirteen peaks of Yulong Snow Mountain can be seen on the water. Yulong Mountain remains the same, while Longtan water is endless, so it is called Hidden Dragon Flying Dragon. The upper and lower couplets are very smooth. After reading them, you can imagine the shape and dynamic and static characteristics of Black Dragon Pool and Yulong Mountain, which are masterpieces of place name couplets.

It is said that when Dong Qichang visited the West Lake, he wrote a couplet for Feilaifeng and Lengquan. When does it get cold in spring? Where does the peak come from? The beauty of this connection lies in: it appears in the form of questions, allowing the audience to answer or explore by themselves; The embedded place names (scenic spots) are not written directly, but let the readers see for themselves from the questions. Spring is a cold spring, and the peak is of course Feilaifeng.

In the summer of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, a newspaper in Shanghai once had a couplet of place names, in which six place names of China were embedded, but each one contained a pun, which implied that the military and civilians of the whole country won the victory of the Anti-Japanese War through * * *. Lian Yue:? Liuhe Datong Baoding Old Mountains and Rivers, Chengdu, Sichuan and Chongqing New China. ? The beauty of this famous couplet lies in that Liuhe, Datong and Baoding in the couplet are all place names, Liuhe is in Anhui, most of which belongs to Shanxi, and Baoding is Hebei, but at the same time it contains the meaning that the military and civilians must persist in resisting Japan to preserve the country's mountains and rivers (Baoding). Chengdu and Chongqing (which belonged to Sichuan Province at that time) were the names of the two major cities in the second league, but at the same time, they showed such a meaning: during the Anti-Japanese War, the National Government moved to Sichuan, with Chongqing as its capital, leading the national military and civilian war of resistance and finally winning the national victory. As short as 18, the couplet contains rich meanings, which is a wonderful couplet in the geographical names association.