Beggars don't have two wives, and neighbors don't have many chickens. Zhou Wang is fashionable, so why talk about it? Author of

"Does the beggar have two wives?" Why are there so many chickens next door? "There is a king of Zhou in fashion, so why talk about Wei Qi?

Said by: Ming Dynasty playwright Feng Menglong? Gujinxiao

Have beggars ever had two wives? How many chickens are there next door to you? There is a king of Zhou in the fashion world. Why does anyone still talk about it?

The first sentence tells the story of "Qi people have wives and concubines" in Mencius, questioning why such poor people can still afford wives and concubines. "There are many chickens next door", which is also an allusion of Mencius. Mencius said that a person steals chickens from his neighbor's house every day.

The last two sentences are aimed at Confucius during the reign of the Zhou emperor. Since Confucius was loyal, he should have worked for the Zhou Dynasty and helped the prosperous times, but he spent half his life looking for officials from disloyal princes.

brief Introduction of the content

Laughing at the Ancient is a collection of classical Chinese notes and humorous satirical novels. The contents of the book are mostly true stories, from emperors to ordinary people, full of jokes. Of course, the joke is only its appearance, and the author undoubtedly hopes to correct the world and help others by cursing humor with a smile.

Corrupt officials, local tyrants and evil gentry, local ruffians and hooligans, confused tyrants and intellectuals are all vivid and lifelike. It seems that we can also capture the shadows of similar figures today from them.

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Feng Menglong (1574—1646), the word is still dragon, the word is still child, and it is a male fish. No. Longziyou, master of Mohanzhai, three ancient songs, slave of Wuxia Ci, slave of Gusu Ci, and Zhu Shi of the previous Zhou Dynasty. Changzhou County (now Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province), Suzhou Prefecture, South Zhili. A writer, thinker and dramatist in Ming Dynasty.

Feng Menglong was born in a scholar-bureaucrat family, and he was also called "the three treasures of martial arts" with his elder brothers Feng Menggui and Feng Mengxiong. His works emphasize feeling and behavior. The most famous works are Yu's Famous Words (also known as Ancient and Modern Novels), Shi Jing and Xingyan, which are collectively called Sanyan.

Sanyan, together with Ling Mengchu's Surprise in One Moment and Surprise in Two Instances in Ming Dynasty, is a classic representative of China's vernacular short stories. Feng Menglong made a unique contribution to China literature by creating, collecting, sorting out and editing novels, operas, folk songs, jokes and other popular literature.

Feng Menglong is diligent in writing, with more than 50 kinds of works. At the age of sixty-one, he was appointed as the magistrate of Shouning County, Fujian Province. He has been in office for four years, and has a good record. He once edited the local chronicle Shouning to be recorded. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the Qing soldiers entered the customs, Feng Menglong was very concerned about state affairs. He collected materials from the refugees who fled to the south and wrote two books, Shen Jia Chronicle and Zhongxing Lulve, which preserved precious historical materials.

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