Ling Jianjun, born in Yongchun Township, Beihu District in 1977, is a member of the Chinese Couplet Society, a member of the Beihu District Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the chairman of the Beihu District Couplet Association. He won the 2005 Chinese Couplet Creation Award. His biography and representative works are included in the Entered into "Dictionary of Chinese Contemporary Couplet Artists".
The couplets are known as "dancing in shackles" because of their emphasis on phonological harmony and the contrast between oblique and oblique tones. Therefore, although couplets have a broad mass base, there are not many people who actually make couplets themselves.
Ling Jianjun became obsessed with couplets when he was 17 years old. The first couplets he wrote were well received and published in the "China Couplet Daily"; at the age of 19, he published "Mother's Love is Deep" in the "Couplets" magazine "Love Mother", "Husbands and wives share the same heart, we will always be united in the same heart" and other difficult first couplets were publicly solicited for the second couplets, which immediately attracted the participation and attention of couplet lovers from all over the world; at the age of 22, he published his first couplet "Zhuo Mo Zhai Lian" "Yu", became the youngest publisher in the national joint circle, and was known as the "Rookie of the Union"; at the age of 26, he published his second joint collection "Zhuo Mo Zhai Business Card", which was signed by Meng Fanjin, the president of the Chinese Couplet Society. Book title. The perfect combination of Xie Bide's calligraphy and couplets in the joint collection made the joint collection highlight the classicism and elegance of traditional culture, and it became a favorite in the joint collection.
The connection with Lian Lian, the charm of infatuated words
Speaking of Ling Jianjun’s connection with Lian Lian, there is a little story. During the Spring Festival of 1995, when his family was preparing to post Spring Festival couplets, his mother said to him casually: "You are about to graduate from the normal school. I wonder when we will no longer bother others to write couplets for our family?" His mother's words made Ling Jianjun a little confused. ashamed. Just after the Spring Festival, he hurriedly returned to school and picked out a few couplet books in the library and began to study them intensively. Ling Jianjun, who prefers literature, seems to have a natural affinity with couplets. In June of this year, Ling Jianjun, who was about to graduate from Chenzhou Normal University, went to Wanhua Rock with his classmates. The mysterious and deep wonders in the cave gave him a sudden inspiration, "In the blessed land of the cave, when you enter the cave, you look for it and clap your hands three times; the fairyland palace, Take three steps out of the palace and turn back." Wen Xilin, the former executive vice president of the Chenzhou Couplet Society, expressed his appreciation for the couplet. The couplets and comments were published in the "Comments on Good Couplets" column of "China Couplet Daily" and were included in "Contemporary Couplets Selection and Commentary".
Some people may think that couplets are just word games and boring. But Ling Jianjun was attracted by the rich meanings and unique wording in the couplets. In 1996, the "China Couplet Daily" published a single couplet "I like people like it". This single couplet may seem simple, but it is indeed not easy to get it right. This couplet is both a "palindrome" and a "Zhuanpin" (the word "中" is preceded by a locative word and later converted into a verb), and the word "中" has the same tone and different tones, with the former pronounced in flat tone and the latter pronounced in oblique tone. After seeing the alliance, Ling Jianjun talked about it, pondered, and thought about it all day long. He thought about it while lying on the bed, thinking about it while walking on the road, and even thinking about it while squatting in the toilet. One day, someone else's words awoke Ling Jianjun, who was deeply fascinated by it, "You must take my affairs seriously!" Ling Jianjun slapped his thigh and blurted out the second line of the line "Things on your heart should be on your heart." This second couplet ranked first among the applicants. Since then, this 18-year-old boy has received admiration from the league.
Infatuated with Lian, thinking about a wonderful life
Ling Jianjun is a very persistent person. Once he falls in love with something, he will never give up easily. Not only did he humbly learn from the seniors in the league, he also studied hard himself. Sometimes just for a word, he thought hard and repeated it. In 2001, he was invited to inscribe a couplet for the Forest of Steles of Generals in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Area: "The pioneers wrote the history of heroes; the successors chanted victory poems!" For this word "history", Ling Jianjun kept thinking about it and spent more than half of it. I spent months thinking about it. At first, he used the word "ye", but he felt it was not precise enough. After careful consideration, he changed it to the word "pu", but he also felt that its scope was too narrow and could not match the forest of generals' steles. After repeated consideration, he finally used the word "hi". Thinking of the word "History", he suddenly felt his eyes light up. It seemed that it was just the word "History" and nothing else. The so-called "history" refers to the heroic history of the pioneers engaged in revolutionary struggle. This history was written by the revolutionary pioneers with their own blood. Later, this couplet was compiled into the "Couplet Corridor Collection of the Generals' Stele Forest in the Sichuan-Shaanxi Soviet Area" and was engraved on the stele and planted in the Stele Forest.
Ling Jianjun appreciates the unique charm of Chinese characters in couplets. As a young coupletist who grew up in Chenzhou, he not only writes couplets himself, but also actively explores and collects Chenzhou ancient couplets. Chenzhou Wugai Mountain stretches and towers, reaching into the sky. Its top Biyun Temple is charming and mysterious.
An eminent monk in the Ming Dynasty traveled here and impromptuly recited a couplet: "Frost, snow, mist and dew cover the mountain tops." The eminent monk racked his brains but could not continue the couplet. The first five characters in this couplet all start with the prefix "rain", which is a radical couplet. The corresponding parts of the upper and lower lines of this type of couplet must have the same radical and word order, so this couplet has never had a lower line. Today, this couplet is engraved in bluestone on the right side of the main entrance of Biyun Temple, while the left side has always been vacant. In 2002, when Ling Jianjun saw this ancient couplet, he thought of an ancient couplet on the cliff of Feitian Mountain, "One crossed two rivers and three landed ashore" but there was no couplet there. He published "Who can compare ancient couplets on stone carvings in Chenzhou" in the magazine "Couplets"? 》, made a detailed and thorough analysis of the famous couplets of Wugai Mountain and the cliff couplets of Feitian Mountain, attracting many overseas couplet lovers to express their interest in Chenzhou ancient couplets. He also wrote articles such as "Nuns Get Married" and "Appreciation of Couplets on the Hua Biao of Emperor Yi's Mausoleum". He used the couplets as introductions to describe historical and cultural attractions such as Suxian Ridge and Mausoleum of Emperor Yi, which increased Chenzhou's popularity in the outside world.
Some people say that Ling Jianjun is a veritable "Lianhe fanatic". But Ling Jianjun enjoyed himself in the world of couplets, just as he named his study "Zhuo Mo Zhai". He pondered the wonderful couplets in his life, and even pondered the wonderful life in the couplets.