-selection of birthday couplets-
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Appreciation of birthday couplets for mothers
△ The world will be full of moons, and centenarians will return
This couplet is the earliest one recorded in China. Mrs. He Huanggeng Yu's birthday couplets written by Wu Shujing in Song Dynasty. This couplet is beautiful for work, lyrical by the moon, and interesting.
△ The mother is a general for the daughter of Gulie
This couplet was written by He Shaoji in Qing Dynasty to congratulate Guo Songlin on her mother's birthday. In the old days, children were valued for their mother's honor, and Guo Songlin was the prefect of Gubeikou, that is, the "general" as mentioned in the second couplet, and the mother who cultivated such a noble child was praised by the author as having the quality of attaching importance to righteousness and neglecting profit in ancient times.
△ The virtuous mother in the world originally pushed the maiden name of the fairy in the sky of Meng He
This is a birthday couplet written by Yuan Mei, a talented scholar in the Qing Dynasty, for a woman named Meng's mother He. This couplet skillfully embeds the surnames of the husband's family and the maiden's family, and wishes the hostess to be like Meng Mu who moved three times and chose a good environment to educate Mencius (that is, the "virtuous mother" in the first part of the couplet), while He Xiangu, one of the Eight Immortals, is conveniently invited in the second part, which not only raises the maiden's family name of the longevity, but also adds an auspicious "fairy spirit" to He Shouping. He Lian is a natural, ingenious and extremely relevant. (asparagus)