Post humorous jokes of Spring Festival couplets.

Ji Xiaolan was a famous genius in Qing Dynasty. He is extremely intelligent, talented, humorous and often likes to tease others.

Once, Ji Xiaolan returned to his hometown and visited a temple.

The abbot of the temple is called Zen Master, an old monk. When he learned that the bearer was the famous Ji Xiaolan, the Zen master was very polite to him and invited Ji Xiaolan to have tea and chat in the meditation room.

At first, the Zen master was full of "kindness". He was a monk and Ji Xiaolan respected him. But after chatting for a while, the words gradually became vulgar, and then they became vulgar and had no Zen flavor.

This made Ji Xiaolan very impatient and unwilling to stay here for a long time, so he got up and left.

How could the Zen master let this world-famous genius go easily? He repeatedly asked him for Mo Bao, and took out a self-portrait and asked Ji Xiaolan to make a poem as a souvenir.

Ji Xiaolan antipathy in the heart, but refused, so he wrote:

Full of energy and good looks; Black scarf and white beard, turtle and crane are auspicious.

The Zen master was very happy when he got the treasure, and asked Ji Xiaolan to write a couplet for his meditation room.

Ji Xiaolan just a thought, pen to write a pair of couplets:

Phoenix swims in the shade of grain, birds fly, and horses walk beside reeds.

The Zen master was overjoyed. After seeing Ji Xiaolan off, he immediately asked craftsmen to carefully frame couplets and hang them in the most conspicuous position in the temple.

A few years later, a scholar came to the temple to play. Seeing the couplets, he couldn't help laughing. The Zen master was puzzled and asked him why he was laughing.

The scholar replied, "I am laughing at this couplet."

The Zen master proudly talked about the origin of couplets and asked the scholar what was so funny.

The scholar said, "This is Ji Xiaolan's intention to tease you."

The Zen master's knowledge is average and he is getting more and more confused.

The scholar patiently explained: "In the first couplet, the phoenix swims in the shade of grain and birds fly, and the word" phoenix "(written as" catfish "in traditional Chinese) is removed from the word" bird ",and the word" several "is bald under the grain; In the second couplet, the grass won't grow when the horse walks by the reed. The word "household" is removed from the word "reed" and the word "horse" is added next to it, which is the word "donkey". The word before and after is connected, isn't it' bald donkey'? "

After hearing this, the Zen master suddenly realized that he was furious and quickly had the couplet removed and burned. He remembered that Ji Xiaolan wrote a sentence on his self-portrait, but it was not a good word, so he hurriedly took it out for scholars to see.

The scholar laughed his head off when he saw it.

"Are you kidding me again?" The Zen master asked.

The scholar held back his laughter and said, "These four sentences are even simpler. Although they all look good, you can understand them just by looking at the first word of each sentence. "

When the Zen master looked at it carefully, it was actually the word "fine old turtle". His face was flushed with anger, and he tore the self-portrait into pieces three or two times and threw it on the ground.