Of course I like the couplet "Unparalleled blessings come today, misfortune comes yesterday."
This is a story that happened not long after Wang Xizhi arrived in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. It happened to be the Spring Festival at this time, and he had just settled in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, so he came up with the idea of ??writing from his mind. Several couplets are used to stick on the door to wish for good luck. True to his word, Wang Xizhi thought for a moment and wrote a couplet: spring breeze, spring rain, spring scenery, new year, new scene and new home. The meaning of this Spring Festival couplet is very good, so as soon as the Spring Festival couplet was posted, it immediately attracted a large number of people's attention. These are the words of the calligraphy sage, and every word is worth a thousand dollars. What's more, it was so auspicious that the couplets were stolen as soon as they were posted!
However, the book sage Wang Xizhi also had good temper and did not say a word. He just wrote another Spring Festival couplet and pasted it up. As a result, this Spring Festival couplet experienced the same fate as the previous couplet. As soon as it was posted, it was stolen. Wang Xizhi is not anxious yet, but Mrs. Wang is. If this continues, what will happen? New Year's Eve is coming soon, and my Spring Festival couplets are lost as soon as they are posted. What should I do?
But Wang Xizhi smiled as if nothing had happened, and then wrote a third couplet and pasted it: Good luck never comes in pairs, misfortune never comes alone. The first two times someone succeeded, many people fell in love with this method and wanted to steal the third couplet. However, they were immediately dumbfounded when they saw it. This couplet is extremely unlucky. Even if you steal it back, it will be useless. Even if you keep it at home, it is unlucky. Therefore, no one dares to steal this couplet. Because of this content, no one stole the Spring Festival couplets until the first day of the Lunar New Year, but this also aroused criticism from the masses. After all, the Spring Festival couplets posted during the Chinese New Year are not very good at all. It just depends on how Wang Xizhi will solve it. At this time, Wang Xizhi picked up the writing brush and calmly added a few words after these two sentences, changing it to: Unparalleled blessings have come to this day, and misfortunes do not come alone yesterday.
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