Zhu Zhishan was brilliant and knowledgeable since he was a child. "Biography of Zhu Yun in Ming Dynasty" records: "I can write poetry at the age of five, but I am a little longer at the age of nine, and I read a lot. The article is very strange. When I am eating a book, I feel like spring. You Gong's calligraphy is famous at sea. "
Zhu Yunming's official career in imperial examinations was rather bumpy. He 19 was a scholar, and he took five rural examinations, only in the fifth year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty (1492), and then he took seven examinations. Even his son Zhu Xu was a top criminal record scholar, so Zhu Yunming gave up the idea of selecting officials in the imperial examination. Although Zhu Zhishan is famous for his calligraphy, he is also an expert in poetry couplets.
It is said that one day, Zhu Zhishan went out to play and met a juren named Xu Zijian. This juren is also a well-read and knowledgeable person, so he is pretentious and very arrogant.
After the two men met, scholars despise each other. Xu Zijian boasted that there was no one in the world who could beat his own couplets, and offered to compete with Zhu Zhishan.
Zhu Zhishan did not show weakness, readily agreed, and asked, "Who will pay? Who is right? "
Xu Zijian casually said: "Of course, you have the final say, and I am right!"
Zhu Zhishan smiled and said the first part:
The first three towers of Santasi
Hearing this, Xu Zijian laughed to himself: A great genius with a good reputation made such children's couplets? Then he said, "What's so hard?" Immediately to all the way:
Five-story platform on Wutai Mountain
Say that finish, Xu Zijian urged Zhu Zhishan to make another difficult part.
But Zhu Zhishan said, "What's your hurry? I haven't finished writing this couplet yet, so I can add words. "
Xu Zijian said contemptuously, "so what? You can add words, so can I. "
Zhu Zhishan said the first part again:
There are three pagodas in front of them: Temple, Pagoda, Pagoda and Pagoda.
Compared with the previous part, this part only adds three "towers" to correspond to the "three towers".
Upon hearing this, Xu Zijian didn't understand this cleverness at the moment. Without thinking, he said:
Wutai Mountain has five terraces, terraces and terraces. ...
At some point, I suddenly froze and found it wrong. I can't say five words, can I?
Zhu Zhishan smiled and said, "What's the matter? What's wrong with' Taiwan Province'? " Then he walked away, leaving Xu Zijian alone to meditate.
This simple couplet has become an incomparable unique couplet just because of the addition of three words.