Poems by Lang Pai

Serial couplets are a method of making couplets, also known as thimbles and beads. The syllables or sentences in couplets are connected end to end, and they are connected back and forth, resulting in the effect of linking up and down, like beads, which are very interesting to read. For example, "broken bridge continues; The residual snow is not residual. " "Fish fishing; The whip is beyond reach, and the whip is beyond reach. " "Fire, fire, fire stick; Ferry boat ferryman. " "The ice and snow on the water is more severe; The fog in the air turned into a cloud and the cloud opened. " ..... and so on. Another example is:

Tianxin pavilion, the pavilion falls pigeons, and the pigeons fly without flying;

On land and water continents, ships stop on continents, but ships can't sail on continents.

This is a popular couplet in Changsha, Hunan. Couplets use a variety of techniques, such as truthfulness, homophony and different characters. The couplets "Gege", "Gege", "Zhou Zhou" and "Zhou Zhou" are the most authentic, and "Gege" and "Zhou Zhou" are homophonic (or homophonic), which is quite ingenious.

There is a story: According to legend, there was a Miss Guo Xiang, who was beautiful in appearance and literary talent, and determined to marry a talented person, provided that she was predestined, rich or poor. She posted couplets outside the gate of Xiangfu: every inch of land is a temple, and there are poems beside the temple. She said, "Send the monk back to the ancient temple in the month; This couplet uses many techniques, such as truth, spelling, spelling and so on. The temples and poems in couplets are true, and they are all combined with the first two related words. It is difficult for the word "moon" in the last sentence of Tang poetry to be separated from the word "Ming". A scholar surnamed Lin wrote a couplet and posted it on the auspicious symbol: two trees make a forest, and it is forbidden to "enter the forest at any time." Miss Guo Xiang was very satisfied when she saw it, so she married it.

There is also such a couplet, which is a wonderful couplet by comprehensively using the skills of ligature and palindrome:

Monks pass through the Big Buddha Temple, which is bigger than monks.

Guests come from nature, but guests come from heaven.

Among the comic books, the most representative is Wu's Hospitality Couplet. Legend has it that Wu was very good at it when he was young. One day, the guests at home came out and said it right: mulberry raises silkworms, silkworms form cocoons, and cocoons spin silk into splendid flowers; Wu's opposite: grass hides rabbits, rabbits give birth to hair, and pens write articles. The guests were all surprised.

There is a quack somewhere who doesn't understand reason and often kills people. Someone posted a couplet on his door:

Not necessarily fierce;

There have been ups and downs.

The upper and lower couplets each use an idiom, but the words are hidden. This is a punch line.

During the Republic of China, a couplet was widely circulated:

Ten thousand taxes in the Republic of China;

The world is too poor.

With the homonym of "tax", "age", "poverty" and "equality", it mercilessly satirizes the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous fees and the social conditions of the poor at that time.

There was an imperial examination in the Qing dynasty, and the title was "I don't know what to think" in the sentence "University". One candidate has poor eyesight and regards "ignorance" as "sister". The examiners felt funny after reading the paper, and wrote a comment on writing with a pen, just in line with the examinee's question:

I thought of my sister;

Dude, you're wrong.

In ancient times, there was a scholar who was a little lame. His father-in-law doesn't like him and never lets him in. One year, the son-in-law was admitted to a scholar. The father-in-law invited his son-in-law to dinner. During the dinner, my father-in-law made a pair of couplets mocking my son-in-law:

The virtuous husband ignores it, and the road is bumpy, one step higher and one step lower;

It's a pity that the old father-in-law is one-eyed, and the son-in-law uses this topic to laugh at the old father-in-law:

Mount Tai is wrong, the world is cold and blind.

1933 65438+ 10, the Red Army arrived in Fengxianggou, Sichuan, and local villagers beat gongs and drums to welcome the Red Army. Someone wrote a pair of Spring Festival couplets for the Red Army:

When the Red Army arrived, they ran away. The local tyrants and evil gentry hid the cat, which said it was wonderful.

Music in the Soviet area, full of folk songs, people's shouts and laughter, and chickens crowing.

This is a quasi-tonal couplet. The first couplet borrows the cat's cry to praise the arrival of the Red Army and the escape of the reactionaries. The second part explains the happy scene of the Soviet area with a chicken call.

There is also an onomatopoeia, which is also very interesting:

Shan Tong picked chestnuts with baskets and smashed them;

The wild old man who buys diamonds will fall down and empty the cage.

Lianzhong is full of life interest, which is a kind of ridicule.

Zheng Banqiao once wrote a couplet with others. He made a couplet, and an old teacher made a couplet:

Four lamps, a single layer of paper, brilliant, shining everywhere in the southeast and northwest;

A year's study, eight hanging money, hard work, through spring, summer, autumn and winter.

As the saying goes, "There are five bushels of rice at home, not the king of dolls", which shows how hard it was to be a teacher in the old society of China, and the second part just tells their hard situation all the year round. On the contrary, there is another saying that people are happy all the year round:

Looking forward to fairy tales, Bai Yexian, Lin Yexian, Su Yexian, I am drunk in the lakes and mountains today, not immortal but also immortal;

Eat, drink and be merry in time, spring is happy, summer is happy, autumn is happy, and looking for snow in winter is not happy.

This is the couplet of "Yue Xian Restaurant" in West Lake. The first couplet uses the word "Xian", and Bai, Lin and Su refer to Li Bai, Lin Bu and Su Shi respectively. The second couplet uses the word "le", which is a vivid portrayal of the joy of the four seasons.

It is said that there was once a bearded old man who made a couplet, and Jin Shengtan made a couplet:

Big boy, walking around the streets, shopping from south to north;

Young old people, sitting on the couch, read from the solstice in winter to the spring and autumn in summer.

Li, a theorist and writer of drama in Qing Dynasty, took his wife out of the cabinet, and when her wife left the cabinet, Li responded:

The moon is round and round, round and round, year after year, and the sun shines at night;

Flowers bloom and fall, flowers bloom and fall, summer goes to Qiu Lai, summer goes to cool, and spring comes after severe winter.

There is a pair of couplets that advise people not to forget to cultivate all the year round, which is very interesting:

From the south to the north, goods flow, thus becoming an eastern town and a western city;

Plow in spring, hoe in summer, and seedlings grow, so there is harvest in autumn and storage in winter.

There are many ingenious pairs in Hua Lian. For example:

Draw a picture of a lotus monk;

This book is close to China Post Hanlin Book.

The sounds of "Shang, Shang, He and He" in couplets are similar to those of "Lin, Han and Han", so it is interesting to read them backwards. A pair of Spring Festival couplets written by Jie Jin is better. Li Anyun:

Peach leaves and grape leaves, herbaceous woody;

Plum blossom, osmanthus rose, spring fragrance and autumn fragrance.

He used the homophonic grapes of Pu and Tao, and the homophonic roses of Mei and Gui, which were clever and just right, without showing any trace.

Four flowers: apricot, peach, pear and plum;

Hand-painted, with a scroll across it: pine, bamboo, plum and orchid.

This couplet shows six kinds of flowers at once: apricot, peach, pear, plum, plum and orchid. But more than that, please see:

Imperial women are shy, daffodils are smiling;

Morning glory against the car, kingfisher flying.

The eight flower names written on the couplets are also herbal names, which are rarely strung together, especially "Acacia", "Smiling", "Welcome the New Year" and "Lingxiao" as verbs are wonderful.

In our country's couplet family, although the couplets about the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar are quite rare, they are mostly wonderful. For example, this pair:

The vernal equinox in February and the autumnal equinox in August are neither long nor short;

There is no difference between yin and yang in three years and five years.

The first couplet of these solar terms not only points out the month (lunar calendar) where the two solar terms are located, but also clarifies the time characteristics of these two months-day and night are even; The second couplet shows the regularity of lunar leap year from another angle, and its scientific nature is beyond doubt. Another couplet is more exciting:

The first frost is like a light snow;

The vernal equinox is not too cold.

This couplet is only 10, but it contains four solar terms. The names of the two solar terms in the couplets are connected by a word "Ru", which makes people enjoy a "morning picture of first frost" in autumn and winter. The word "nothing" in the middle of the second couplet is skillfully used and connected with the great cold behind it, which accurately and vividly depicts the climate characteristics when the vernal equinox is warm and cold. There is also a pair of couplets with the same effect:

The weather is cold, and the eaves of the first frost have turned into light snow;

During the Dragon Boat Festival in the daytime, Chongyang is now under the Qingming Festival.

There are also some stories related to wine. Legend has it that one day Su Shi and Qin Guan went out by boat and suddenly saw a drunk on the shore riding a donkey. Su Shi went out and said, "Drunk people ride donkeys and calculate the wine bill step by step;" Qin Guan couldn't answer at the moment, so he thought for a moment. Suddenly, he saw the boatman at the stern shaking his boat and leaning forward. He said to him, "The boatman shook his paddle and bowed deeply for money."

In the wine association, there are also negative contents of drowning one's sorrows by drinking. Such as "getting drunk and worrying; Three cups of everything and. " "There are green ants; Only solve your worries in Du Kang. " In the last couplet, Li Bai's poem of "raising a glass to eliminate sorrow" and Li Xun's poem of "playing the piano with drums, dumping green ants and entertaining yourself with a boat" were deducted; The second part deleted Cao Cao's famous sentence "How to solve your worries, only Du Kang". The couplets are gloomy and high in style, but the antithesis is neat and the allusions are appropriate, which is still worth appreciating from an artistic point of view. There is also a mockery of wine couplets, such as a gentleman's gift to drinkers: "red and white, I don't know the north and south after drunkenness;" Green and yellow don't pick up, and the poor only sell things. " This irony is powerful, incisive and profound. In the past, there were many land temples in rural Sichuan, and the couplets used were: "Yellow wine and white wine don't matter; "Cocks and hens should be fat." Vividly portrayed the clown role of those "local tyrants". In the past, the Jiabao Township Agreement was the most direct "big mouth" to blackmail good people. The "landowner" is the representative of these guys. The couplets are ingenious and wonderful, which can be called the pen of painting bones. It is undoubtedly appropriate to ridicule a few people who take bribes and bend the law.

In the rich and colorful treasure house of traditional Chinese medicine, some names of traditional Chinese medicine or proprietary Chinese medicines have far-reaching implications, which give people a sense of leisure. Many scholars have taken a fancy to this characteristic of drug names, and skillfully used drug names to write "drug name association", which endowed drugs and plants with vitality, and the expression method was quite neat and rigorous, which not only made people enjoy art after reading, but also enhanced the knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine. Here are a few examples:

Angelica sinensis square inch;

Living alone in the world.

Sea dragons and seahorses connect the four seas;

Safflower, red vine, rhododendron.

Love at first sight;

Zi Yuan yingchun muxiang.

Liu Yi was ashamed to see the spring flowers;

Xu Changqing arsenic picks wintersweet.

Four gentlemen talk about eight methods to drop squid without spurge;

Four Treasures of the Study Fu Hailong is the special envoy of Polygonum cuspidatum.

In those days, I bid farewell to Anemarrhena asphodeloides and lotus seeds, walked through several Chinese roses, passed through many unfamiliar places, and arrived at Shayuan, where I cut off Schizonepeta tenuifolia, put on tribulus terrestris and put on Platycodon grandiflorum.

Today, I am willing to repay my farsightedness, experience a thousand-mile lily, win a thousand-mile acacia flower, enjoy a half-way fennel and a red flower, and go to farmland.

Pulsatilla, holding a spurge, crossing the sea, fighting wooden thieves and fighting lilies, is worthy of being an old general;

Matchmaker, golden hairpin and silver flower are five times better than peony, and Cistanche deserticola is like a mica fairy.

Couplets are right, wrong and crossed. Generally speaking, the contents of the upper and lower couplets are required to be related and closely coordinated. The characteristic of "loveless pair" is that it only pays attention to the relative words of the upper and lower conjunctions, but the contents are different from each other and absolutely irrelevant. The farther the difference is, the better, which makes people have unpredictable and endless fun. Here are a few heartless fun things:

Before liberation, a newspaper in Shanghai hung a grand prize and awarded it to a couplet:

Huangmeitian in May;

The literary thoughts expressed by the wonderful hands of the United altar have been applied one after another. The result was unexpected, but the second part of the gold list is:

Samsung brandy.

It turns out that this is an ingenious advertisement of the winery owner in the newspaper. Every word from "May" to "Samsung", "Huangmeitian" to "Brandy" is neat, but the meaning is completely irrelevant. This movement made "Samsung Brandy" famous and "heartless couple" widely known.

Zhang Zhidong, the minister of the late Qing Dynasty, gave a banquet in Taoranting, Beijing one day, during which he talked and laughed. A guest walked out of the first part with a poem, and Zhang Zhidong answered:

Trees still have a long way to go;

Really irrelevant.

"Tree" is the name of "fruit"; "Chihiro" is a quantifier of "a little", and the ancient eight feet is seeking; "Axe" and "dry" are the names of objects, and "dry" is an ancient weapon. It can be said that every word is neat, but the meaning of the sentence is irrelevant and unexpected. Zhang Zhidong is right:

Tao ranting;

According to common sense, the bottom line should also be based on the place name, but a guest is based on the person's name:

Zhang Zhidong.

Because the couplets are exquisite, everyone laughs at each other: "Zhang" and "Tao" are both surnames; "Zhi" is a function word of "Ran"; "Cave" and "Pavilion" are the names of things, and the words are paired, which means extremely "heartless", but the interest is also born from this.

Song? Gong's Wu in China contains a report by Mr. Ye:

Celosia cristata is not released;

Someone is right:

Mr. Fox Tail.

Words are relative, but their meanings are irrelevant. The first sentence is a subject-predicate sentence, which means that the cockscomb has not yet bloomed, the antithesis sentence has become a partial structure sentence, and the green bristlegrass has become the attribute of Mr. Ye, and he played a joke on Mr. Ye.

There is a couplet, the sentence is Tang poetry, and the antithesis is actually three country names:

Gongmen Taoli Zhengrong Day;

France, Netherlands, Belgium.

The first reading of two sentences is almost incompatible, and it is amazing to savor it carefully. According to legend, Judy, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, once said to Jie Jin, a civil servant, "I have a couplet:' color is difficult', but it is very difficult to get it right." Jie Jin replied: "Easy." Zhu Yue said, "Since the cloud is easy, why is it so long?" Commentary: "I am right." Zhu Shi suddenly realized. "Hard color" means hard color. "Color" and "quantity", "difficulty" and "easy" are a delicate and ruthless pair.

Love-free couples are acquired by accident, and it is by no means possible for "Lang Lang Pei" or "Luanyuanyang" to succeed. Sentences should also have a complete meaning, and unexpectedly, bring people sudden interest, but also make people remember deeply.

Li Qingzhao was a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, and her husband Zhao Mingcheng was an engraver. The husband and wife are knowledgeable and proficient in poetry and meter, and they are famous "poetry couples". On one occasion, they attended the famous birthday party of Wu Laoshouxing150th in Qingzhou. After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, please ask Qingzhao and his wife to write couplets to congratulate Wu Laoshouxing on his birthday. Ming cheng is a little modest and writes:

Reunion, getting old again;

Every Jiazi is 60 years old, that is, 120 years old means "reunion with flowers" and 30 years old means "standing". The addition of the two figures coincided with Wu's birthday, and applause suddenly sounded in the living room. When they saw how to renew the couplet, they saw that Qingzhao was not formal, with a pen in his hand, and it was also a stroke of a pen:

Celebrate the ancient and rare, and add youth to children.

Gu Xi is 70 years old, Shuangqing 140 years old and Youxue 10 years old. Together, it happens to be Wu Lao's longevity, and the confrontation is neat and harmonious. Everyone was amazed. Wu Lao was overjoyed and spread out the rice paper himself, saying, "You two are really in high spirits. Please give me another book for the old man. " Before Zhao Qing said, Ming Cheng beat him to it and he agreed. He took a guess and wrote five big words:

Sanduo Fushouzi;

See Zhao Qing calm calm, eyes rested on the old bookshelf, a brainwave, bowed their heads and wrote:

Four poems, elegant and smart.

Ming Cheng, bent on finding out, bowed to Wu Lao and said, "Since such a clumsy alliance has given the old man the wrong love, can my husband and wife give another one?" "Good, good, good, really welcome!" Wu personally rolled out the rice paper, and Ming Cheng was not humble. Brush brush is a few big characters:

Wang Bafang's surname is Wu,

Everyone is one leng, old face suddenly overcast. Clear as unhurried, follow-up with mingcheng ink wrote:

The tortoise lives longer than the sun and the moon, and the years are high;

Wu watched, twisting his long beard and cheering! Mingcheng never imagined that such a fatal sentence, Qingzhao may be right, so he continued to write the second book "Never Surrender":

Rats are also called old rats.

According to shine a captivating smile, pushed Ming Cheng aside and began to write:

Mouse omen is precious, and the country is beautiful. Aunt mouse is another name for peony flower.

Everyone applauded the clever couple in Qingzhao. When Wu Lao saw the word "Wu Lao" embedded in this couplet, he was even more ecstatic, pulling Ming Cheng and his wife and cheering again and again! At this point, Ming Cheng had to obey Qingzhao, and he was alert.

(Author: once recommended: lonely cold duck)

Occasionally, articles entertain me;

I'm not interested in meeting adults alone.

10 years ago, this couplet was written by Liushahe, and it was written in regular script on rice paper. It was discovered by overseas tourists from the Haoyuxuan book gallery of Du Fu Caotang, and it cost a lot of money to become news. It also opened Liushahe's hobby of writing couplets and selling words.

Expressing meaning with short sentences and creating new things under the constraints of antithesis and rhyme are running out of time today! It looks like a pen, but it has a unique charm. If you are not familiar with the charm of Chinese and have no skills in refining sentences, it will be difficult. In the face of today's rampant entertainment, Liushahe is only addicted to the self-entertainment of literature. Isn't this kind of entertainment the insistence of the literati spirit? The inflammation of the powerful, accompanied by the wind of the rich, is popular, and the literati disdain it. Isn't it an independent personality? This kind of antithetical couplets with distinctive personality is no different from those who used to mock bold slogans, so it is quite popular with people.

Just as there is a school of literati painting in Chinese painting, this kind of couplet can also be called literati couplet. It should have developed from Dongpo, Xu Wei and Banqiao, and also inherited the blood of the May 4th Movement. Therefore, the semantics of couplets are popular and personalized, and even if some people like them, it may not be appropriate to put them at home. Not only is it inappropriate, but there are also many people who have recently asked for it, and Liushahe is not convenient to write. I changed this harmony to:

There is no article to entertain the individual;

The least interested in meeting adults.

Actually, I changed it to cater to the public, but I'm afraid no one wants to ask. Not only people don't come to buy it, I'm afraid even ghosts won't come to the door!

In the old days, the wedding customs in western Guangdong were studied with various items such as "dragon and candle couplets", "colorful flag couplets" and "sedan chair door couplets" before marriage, and "teasing the bride" and "making things difficult for the groom" in the bridal chamber on the wedding day to see the extent of the couple's "knowledge of calligraphy and ink". These projects, especially when literati get married, are still particular. This is also an episode of wedding customs in western Guangdong.

Dragon candle pair

According to the old custom in western Guangdong, on the wedding day, in addition to rice wine cakes, dried betel nuts, eight-tone tapes and red sedan chairs, the man's family should also prepare dragon and phoenix candles to worship the ancestors, wrap them up and stick a piece of paper sprinkled with golden red on the outside, so as to compare the "dragon lantern and candle pair" with the "phoenix lantern and candle pair" for the woman's family. In addition to giving back four chairs, clothes, shoes and hats, utensils and so on. The bride's family also takes the form of "phoenix with candle". In this way, the groom will be satisfied with the dragon, phoenix and candle, and go home in pairs with the bride to coordinate his "good intentions."

"Dragon Candle" and "Phoenix Candle" are paired, and the two are combined into a pair of "auspicious and wishful" couplets. The old content is mostly "a hundred years of harmony; The fifth generation is prosperous. " "Yan Yanqing; Kirin Cheng Xiang. " "Always unite as one; Qi Fei "and other auspicious antitheses. Later, it gradually evolved into a program that boasted about the glorious history of one's clan and commended the outstanding achievements of ancestors. The tone of the two sides fighting each other is very high, but they are deliberately surprisingly difficult to match to "test" each other's writing and calligraphy. Among them, many beautiful couples are very philosophical and artistic. Because of this "test", the woman could not understand the "dragon candle pair" for a while. Although it is dusk, the bride can't go out. So we paid a lot of money to hire talented people to replace the right people, sent people to the man's office in advance to secretly inquire about the "dragon and candle rights", and there were also people who came back to raise the right ones. Because no one wants to admit his "low prestige" in public, this "small episode" often adds a lot of interest to the wedding, which leads to many anecdotes.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the son of Xu Guangrong, Tanjing Society, Sibun Town, Luoding County, hired Huang Boshu's daughter as a concubine. On the wedding day, Hsu family specially invited Huang Sha scholar Shen to write a comparison for him:

Dragon candle painting dragon and phoenix, dragon attracting phoenix, phoenix attracting dragon, dragon attracting phoenix to white hair;

This couplet is a "top truth" couplet with the title "Dragon Candle" embedded in the head. Huang is one of the three great families in Four Treatises, with a large number of literati. But when I saw this couplet, I couldn't help being startled. I've racked my brains, but I still can't say a word. After the banquet, the dowry is ready, but the "dragon and candle couple" hasn't come out yet. According to the custom, the bride can't get on the sedan chair, and Huang Boshu is as anxious as a cat on hot bricks. His niece, Huang Erci, is eighteen years old. She is smart and looks outstanding. She is embroidering pillows in the room. When she heard about it, she asked, "Uncle, how about learning from my little niece?" Huang Boshu believes that all the literary experts gathered in the village can't get along. How does a simple woman get along? But near dusk, when the bride couldn't get on the sedan chair, she was laughed at by the world and said, "niece, try it and solve my uncle's urgent need!" "

Good Huang erci, looking at the embroidered pillow in his hand, suddenly turned to the tail:

Embroider mandarin ducks on pillows, make mandarin ducks, make mandarin ducks and dance mandarin ducks to celebrate Qi Mei.

After listening to it, Huang Boshu repeatedly praised: "Good niece, good right! Good right! " Immediately, I asked someone to write the end of "Dragon Candle Pair", happily let the bride get into the sedan chair and return to the Xu family as scheduled. When the sedan chair arrived at Xu's home, all six relatives and hundreds of guests were surprised by the "dragon candle couple" of the Huang family.

In 25 years of the Republic of China, on the day when a man named Chegang Village in Songgui, Yunfu County married a woman named Mo in Dongxiang Township, Yunan County, the head of the man's "Dragon Candle Couple" was:

A candle shines brightly;

No one at home could handle it at that time. Just when it was difficult, it happened that Teacher He Deyi of Zhongli Village passed by the door on the way to visit relatives and friends. When he heard this comparison, he saw that all the guests were stupefied and replied in a clear voice:

A pleated skirt covers the sedan post.

Hearing this, the crowd cooed. It turns out that this is more important to the other party's place name "Chegang" than the second part of the couplet, and the tone is stronger than the first part. The host hurriedly invited the "uninvited guest" into the palace, sat at a chief wedding banquet, and let Mr. He write down the ending of "Dragon Candle Couple" with a stroke of a pen, which was passed down as a much-told story for a while.

Bunting？ Zanthoxylum bungeanum

The custom of an old-fashioned wedding in western Guangdong is to hold it in front of two six-foot colorful flags. On the one hand, there are couplets written by men about marriage, and on the other hand, there are couplets posted by women, which are called "colorful flag couplets". In some places, couplets are written on both sides of the door of the bride's sedan chair, which is called "sedan chair couplet". According to the custom at that time, it was impossible to take the bride back without matching.

One year, a villager in Guzhukeng, Duqi, Yunfu County married his daughter-in-law, and the bride was from Shanbian Village, Liu Yang Township. Her uncle is a juren in Zhaoqing. Tian Miao's colorful flag has no couplets, so the bride is not allowed to get on the sedan chair, but the guests have asked for it many times, but she doesn't agree. On the one hand, the bride's uncle wants to improve his social status, on the other hand, he wants to cheat no one in the village, so as to take this opportunity to ask for more bride price. Kelang was forced to send someone to fly to the man's house. These people are at a loss when they hear the newspaper. Mr. Feng Xuan, a foreigner who teaches in the village, came forward to help and wrote a couplet:

The ancient bamboo is a flute, which blows out Yang Liuzhi's words and broadcasts a loud voice to welcome guests on the hillside;

Someone quickly gave the couplet to the woman. When the bride's uncle saw it, he was dumbfounded and lay in the plush chair. It turns out that "Guzhu", "Liu Yang", "Dabao" and "Shanbian" in colorful flag couplets are all local village names, and they are all related and high-profile. How can this uncle make couplets? It became a joke for a while.

In a village in Kaijian County, he married a woman and a man from other places. On an auspicious day, Pan's family blew eight tones and carried a red sedan chair to meet the bride. On the right side of the curtain, a pair of heads are written:

Pan's son has water, fields and rice;

He Jia fired a gun and greeted it according to custom. At noon, the guests had all the food and drinks, all the gifts and dowry were ready, and the bride dressed up early and got on the red sedan chair. However, the wedding team did not leave. At this time, the sun is about to set, and the bride who has been sitting in the sedan chair for a long time is impatient, so she asks her partner on the side of the sedan chair: It's getting late, why don't you go? The bride compared He Jiashang's debt to the man's "sedan chair couplet", but a group of scholars failed to elaborate on it. The bride listened and said, "What's so hard? Wait for this girl to come! " Say that finish, jade hand gently Liao car curtain, glanced at the couplets, freely:

Miss he, add people and add people.

The bride sang and put down the curtains. Mr. Pen and Ink immediately came over happily and wrote this comparison on the left side of the car door. Then the eight tones are played together, and the bride gets married before the sun goes down. All the guests admired the bride, Cai Jie, and praised with one voice: "A guest is good at writing poetry, and a talented woman deserves a talented person!" "

Near Baoan Lane Village, Shidong, Huaiji, a woman married a man in Liuliang Village, Anhua Township. On the wedding day, the man wrote a colorful flag for the woman's family and the couple. Lian Yue:

Six grains and six rivers drink six wines;

It is difficult to get the title of this joint with the name of "Liu Liang" and the word "Liu" in succession. On the same day, after the girl's home was connected, she struggled for a long time, and no one could say for sure. I have been thinking hard until the evening, but I still don't have a good sentence. Just when I was in a dilemma, I happened to meet a poor scholar passing by to collect pig manure. It was a red-letter day, but when I saw the bitter faces, the poor literati asked the reason, which was the bottom line:

Close neighbors are close relatives.

This couplet is added with the name of the village where the woman lives, and the name of the village where the man lives is "Liuliang", and the words "gold" and "six" are skillfully matched. The hostess was so happy that she asked the poor literati to write colorful flags and tails and invited him to sit on the table and drink.

Tease the bride

At night, according to the custom, men, women and children can enter the new house to tease the bride. The town is more fashionable and spends more money, which is commonly known as "teasing the bride" (that is, disturbing the new house). People who tease the bride often have to test the bride's "literary talent".

During the Yongzheng period of Qing Dynasty, Ye of Songgui (now Yun 'an County) in Yunfu married Li, the daughter of Nanhai. On Candle Night, many scholars came to "tease the bride" one after another until the fourth day approached, and everyone was still in full swing, pestering the bride to improvise poems, stipulating that the theme was "Wedding Candle", but no mistakes were allowed. If the poem fails, give a couple three glasses of wine each. I saw the bride thought for a moment and improvised a poem:

The eternal marriage is here tonight,

Why do you insist on inviting each other?

The poor weaver stood by,

Let the cowherd cross the bridge early.

After listening to this poem, all the guests praised the bride as a talented woman, and issued a "marching order" that "a spring night is worth a thousand dollars", and they all left messages to each other in a friendly way.

Once upon a time, there was a scholar named Lv Hongru in Yunfu, who was knowledgeable, and a woman named Juan Li, who was brilliant with eyes, and later married the scholar Feng Xuan. On the wedding night, relatives and friends quarreled with each other. Someone said to Li Juan, "It's past midnight. Ask the bride to give us a couplet to correct it. If it's not right, leave the new house quickly and let you be the gift of the Duke of Zhou. " Otherwise, we'll fight in the bridal chamber until dawn. "The bride smiled and replied," Please make a suggestion for the little girl to try. ""Take the pleasure of flying in your wedding room tonight as the topic. "It turns out that this man wants to take advantage of women's difficulties to win. After hearing this, the bride pretended to be embarrassed. Just as people were booing, she gently opened her mouth:

Wipe your nails and rouge, call Ziweilang shyly, and miss the night with Hosta;

When the bride sang, all her bosom friends cheered loudly and praised her talent. It turns out that this couplet not only tells the whole story of the bride's heart in the bridal chamber, but literally, it is all the flower names (nails, rouge, crape myrtle, Hosta, night wedding), but if you look carefully, it can be a verb-object phrase. How can those literati be right? Had to burn firecrackers, despondently go to a shed trunk, exit the new house.

Test the groom

In the early Qing Dynasty, Jiang, a native of Songguitang Village, married into Chegang Yejia. When Miss Ye closes the door, let him propose a toast before entering the house. Miss Ye wrote the first part on Feng Chai's head:

The head shakes the phoenix, the phoenix shakes its head, and the head shakes the phoenix dance;

Jiang Xiucai thought for a long time outside the door. Without a good story, he went back to his study to read. He was suddenly inspired by the illustration of "Longteng" in the book and went straight to the new door happily. A clear voice replied:

Hand-rolled dragon, hand-rolled dragon, hand-rolled dragonfly.

Miss Ye heard clearly in the room, so she opened the door and welcomed the groom into the bridal chamber with a smile. After the wedding, Ms. Ye made a pair of tails with her birthplace:

Cars help cars, waterwheels help cars;

Jiang Xiucai without thinking, namely a:

Through the village, through the village.

This palindrome is the same as the reverse reading, and "du cun" is the name of the local village, which is just the opposite of "Chegang". What a coincidence. This is a good right.

It seems easy to join the association directionally, but it is difficult to use it well. According to legend, during the Qianlong period, the yamen of the Ministry of Industry in Beijing caught fire, and Qianlong ordered the reconstruction of Dakong Golden Bamboo Slips. At that time, there was a couplet in Beijing:

Fire the Ministry of Water Resources and build Jin Sikong;

Later, Ji Yun came:

Northerners are in the south, and Zhongshujun is not a thing.

According to the five elements, the east belongs to wood, the west belongs to gold, the south belongs to fire, the north belongs to water and the middle belongs to earth. It is right and neat to use "East, West, North and South" to describe "Jin Mu's fire, water and soil", and it is a curse to China's book.

Some directions are connected by "East, West, North and South", which is very interesting:

Nantong House, North Tongzhou, North Tongzhou connects the north and the south;

East pawnbroker, west pawnbroker and east pawnbroker are things.

There are also some directions with a strong sense of life, such as:

Short cotton, spinning long thread, weaving large cloth, wrapping small feet, traveling north and south;

Bend bamboo, draw ends, circles, hoop flat barrels, and install east and west.

1986 Mid-Autumn Festival, "Yunxianglou Restaurant" in Meixian City, Guangdong Province;

Dongshan moon, west wing moon, flowers under the moon before the moon, singing and singing eagerly;

A Taiwan Province teacher won the championship, and his antithesis was:

Nanlingtian, Beigangtian, Tianya Haijiao, full of noble wine.

This is a good positioning. That's right.