The Yellow River is far above the white clouds, and it is a lonely city, Wan Ren Mountain.
why should Qiangdi blame the willow? The spring breeze doesn't pass Yumenguan.
due to negligence, the calligrapher forgot to write the word "Jian". Cixi was furious and wanted to kill him. The calligrapher used his quick wits and quickly explained, "Calm down, Lafayette, this is a word written in Wang Zhihuan's poetry." And break the sentence on the spot and read it to Cixi:
"The Yellow River is far away, with white clouds, and the lonely city is Wan Ren Mountain. Why complain about Qiangdi? Willow spring breeze, not Yumenguan. "
when cixi heard this, she turned her anger into joy and even claimed that it was wonderful.
Cleverly changing couplets
Once upon a time, there was an old scholar, and his son was also a scholar, so he was so proud that he prepared a big banquet for the guests the next day to celebrate, and personally wrote a couplet and posted it outside the gate. The first part is "father Jinshi, son Jinshi, father and son Jinshi", and the second part is "old lady, daughter-in-law, old lady". Because this old Jinshi is usually rich and heartless, relying on his own wealth and power, he often bullies men and women and fish villages, and the people all hate him. One of the scholars saw this couplet and immediately decided to play a trick on the old Jinshi to relieve the evil spirit in his heart. So, he took advantage of the night to add a horizontal length to the bottom of the word "scholar" in this couplet, add a apostrophe to the family of "husband" and add two horizontal lines to the word "person".
The next day, all the guests invited by the old Jinshi came. When everyone saw this couplet, they all whispered and sniggered. When the old Jinshi heard the news, he saw that the couplet had become "the father went to the ground, the son went to the ground, and the father and son went to the ground; A woman loses her husband, a daughter-in-law loses her husband, and a mother-in-law loses her husband. "
The old Jinshi made a fool of himself in front of everyone, so he couldn't help shouting and fainted, and the people applauded.