What is the poem that a pear flower presses a begonia?

"A Pear Flower on a Begonia Tree" is a poem written by Su Shi when he was 80 years old and persuaded his friend Zhang Xian to marry an 18-year-old concubine.

Original text:

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Eighteen brides are eighty lang, with gray hair and red makeup.

Two nights of mandarin duck quilt, pear tree pressing begonia.

Allusions:

Su Shi, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, had a friend named Zhang Xian (also a great poet in the Song Dynasty, who will share his famous sentences later). It is said that when Zhang Xian was 80 years old, he married a girl named Huanghua who was 18 years old. Su Dongpo and a group of friends went to congratulate her.

Zhang Xian wrote a poem: "I am 80 years old, 18 years old, and your beauty is my white hair. The same age as Qing, only separated by a flower. "

Seeing the pride of Lao Zhang, Su Dongpo blurted out the last song: "Eighteen brides and eighty lang, with white hair and red makeup. Two nights in the quilt, a pear tree pressed Haitang. " Pear flower is white, which is a metaphor for Zhang Xian, a white-headed old man; Begonia red describes a beautiful young woman. The scene described by "a pear blossom over a begonia" in Yuanyang quilt is self-evident, so it is often used to describe an old man with few wives.

Interestingly, Zhang Xian lived to be 88 years old, and only lived for 8 years after marrying a concubine of 18 years old. Surprisingly, Yu Ji gave birth to two men and two women for him in eight years. Mr. Zhang has ten sons and two daughters all his life. There is a gap of sixty years between the eldest son and the youngest daughter. When Zhang Xian died, my concubine cried her eyes out. A few years later, she died of depression.