Why do peacocks fly southeast?

1935, Lu Kanru, a young international student from China, is defending his doctoral thesis. The examiner was satisfied with the answer all the way. Suddenly the examiner asked a strange question: "Why didn't the first sentence of the poem" Peacock flies southeast "say" Peacock flies southeast "? Anyone who has studied ancient Chinese knows that the meanings of many locative words in poetry are illusory, and it is impossible to read the meaning, just like "a sword and a gun are put in storage, and a horse comes out of the south mountain." "You have to go to Beishan to release your horse. But it's embarrassing for you to answer like this. After careful consideration, Lukan replied, "Because there are tall buildings in the northwest." "This sentence quoted 19 ancient poems. "Northwest" is just the antonym of "Southeast". The building in the northwest was so high that Confucius couldn't fly, so he had to fly to the southeast instead.

It is said that when Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty was young, he suddenly asked his old teacher why there was a word called "thing", such as "What's in the basket?" And isn't there a word called "North and South"? His old teacher immediately said, "In the five elements, the north and south represent water and fire respectively, and the east and west represent gold and wood." . Water and fire are formless. What will the basket do? But Jin Mu is a tangible thing, so we call it East and West, not North and South. "

There are tall buildings in the northwest, flush with the clouds.

Cross sparse junction window, aging third order.

There is a string song on the floor, with a sad voice!

Who can compose this song? No one is Qi Liang's wife.

Merchants in the Qing Dynasty drifted with the wind in the Middle Song Dynasty.

Sighing again and again, generosity is more than sadness.

I don't care whether the singer is bitter or not, but I hurt my bosom friend.

I would like to fly high for two swans.