Interesting couplets Cheng Enze
Cheng Enze (1785 ~ 1837), whose name was Yunfen, was born in Shexian County, Anhui Province. Qing scholars. Jiaqing Jinshi. When Daoguang came, he was tired of being the right assistant minister of the official department. Familiar with six arts, fine poetry, calligraphy, painting, epigraphy and Xu Shi's Shuowen. He is the author of "Examination of National Policy Place Names" and "Collection of the Legacy of Assistant Minister Cheng".
Wang Dao leveled the surface of Tongling
Xiang Gong looked like plum blossom
In the 12th year of Daoguang (1832), Cheng Enze presided over the imperial examination in Guangdong. When I passed Yuling, I was caught in a thunderstorm, so I took a nap in the Zhangwen Temple (a memorial to Zhang Jiuling in Tang Dynasty). He read all the couplets in the temple and found nothing satisfactory. When I wanted to write my own couplet, I was quite complacent, but I couldn't think of the opposite sentence at the moment. The next morning, I took a bamboo sedan chair to Hongmeiyi and was inspired. I smiled and said, "Why not take the local scenery as the right one?" Hurriedly rushed to the Zhangwen Temple, and asked the monk to get a pen and inkstone. The big book said, "Wang Dao razed the Tongling table, and the" xianggong "looks like plum blossoms." The monk carved this couplet on the temple wall, and all the viewers sighed at his right work.
Wang Dao's sweeping of Tongling Mountain shows that Xianggong looks like plum blossoms.