Kobayashi Hiroji: "I started with words and missed three years;" After practicing martial arts, …

Original: I started with words and missed three years; After practicing martial arts, the tinker made an arrow, and the drums were deafening, one after another; I studied medicine and achieved something. Write a prescription, eat it and die.

I studied literature at first, but I failed in the exam for three consecutive years. So I changed to martial arts, and I hit an arrow in the martial arts field and even hit the staff of drumming. As a result, he was kicked out and changed to study medicine, and he invented a method of treating diseases himself. And I drank it and died.

From —— Biography of Yang, a game master in Qing Dynasty.

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Most of the materials in The Collection of Little Guang Lin are taken from jokes in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, or written by the editors themselves. In form, it is mainly short and pithy. Compared with works with hundreds to thousands of words, it is even more rare, which is slightly different from ordinary joke books. The book scoffs at common phenomena such as greed, meanness, hypocrisy, ignorance, gaffes and henpecked behavior.

Even some people with physical defects don't forget to tease. Generally speaking, although there are some unkind taunts, its theme is various phenomena of people, things and things, so it has the function of keeping close to the pulse of society and showing folk customs, so it can reflect the world situation quite well and attract people's attention, which is worth pondering.