The story of Tongcheng folk couplets
Do you know the story of Tongcheng folk couplets? Below, I compiled the story of Tongcheng folk couplets for you, hoping to help you.
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The legend of couplets began with the inscription of Meng Chang, the owner of Shu, on the peach symbol board of Bedroom Gate after the Five Dynasties. New Year's Day is a little later in Qing Yu, and the number of Jiajie Festival is Changchun? . In the Song Dynasty, it was popularized and used on couplets, and later it was widely used for decoration and communication. For example, the couplet of mourning for the deceased was called elegiac couplet.
Throughout the ages, there have been many famous associations. Here are some stories about couplets and their causes, most of which are related to my hometown Tongcheng. It must be explained that what I am telling here is a story. Some stories are made up by people. Because the story is not history, there is no need to make any textual research on it.
what is Tongcheng in modern history? Hometown of culture? Known as. There are many scholars here, some of whom are the best. The most famous ones are Brinton and Zhang Tingyu, who are not only honest and honest, but also important officials of the court with outstanding achievements, and they are all university experts.
Zhang Tingyu retired and built a house. When Ganlong learned that Xiangfu was completed, he personally wrote the Doorway couplet in Chinese characters, the first couplet? No one can match the strategy of the country? ; Downlink? Emperor Xu Jiangnan's first one? . Ganlong's handwriting is also excellent. Unfortunately, due to various reasons, this famous relic has now disappeared.
? Tongcheng school? It is a major literary school that has dominated the literary world for more than 2 years, and its founder is Fang Bao (No.Wangxi). According to legend, Fang Bao boasted to some literary friends in Beijing: We Tongcheng can even pick up shit, right? . One literary friend didn't believe it, and went to Tongcheng specially when he came to Anhui on business. One day early in the morning, I met an old farmer who went to town to pick up excrement in a lane of the county, so I went forward and asked him: Do you always pair? The old farmer said? Pairs? What pair? The literati from Beijing said? Pairs are my upper part, and you are the lower part. ? The old farmer said? You go out. ? There is an ancient pagoda that vibrates the wind in Anqing House. How about using it as a couplet? Then oral online:? Pagoda shrugged, seven floors in all directions. ? The old farmer couldn't match up, so he shook his hand and left with a dung bucket.
Vibration Tower
After the literati returned to Beijing, the other party Bao said: Sir, you brag. I took an examination of a farmer, and he couldn't get a word right. ? Fang Bao said: Absolutely not! ? The literati said:? Without a word, the farmer shook his hand and left. ? Fang Bao said in a sarcastic tone: The first step was so unlearned that the farmer got it right, and it was excellent. ? The other party was surprised and asked Fang Bao why he said so. Fang Bao said:? The farmer made the right gesture: the jade hand shakes, and the fingers are three long and two short. ? After Fang Bao said this, the other party was impressed: Alas, compared with this, my first couplet is too vulgar, and my second couplet is much more elegant. Indeed, the world is in Tongcheng! ?
Zeng Guofan, a self-proclaimed disciple of Tongcheng School, despite his political views, his knowledge is really profound and his handling of some things is human. He was deeply saddened by the death of his nurse, and wrote a pair of elegies with tears in his eyes. A meal is still rewarding, and I am only pregnant in October. A thousand dollars is hard to repay, and when it comes to human physics, you should weep for three years. ? This elegiac couplet is deep and sincere, and the antithesis is neat.
It is more difficult to write elegiac couplets than ordinary couplets, because the author (or devotee) of elegiac couplets is required to write the relationship with the deceased and the unique feelings expressed by generate, so as to be moving.
Ji Hongchang? Anti-Japanese crime? In Tianjin, he was martyred by the reactionary butcher's knife. At the memorial service, a young man came to the venue with an elegiac couplet in his hand and gave it to the priest. The priest immediately read it and was shocked. This is a long couplet, the first couplet:? Longcheng, Wan Li, can't stop the rampant sea bandits, Gubei, Xifeng, Lengkou, the flames of war, the iron horse, and the same jersey. ? Downlink:? Five thousand mink brocade, ask who is not generous, clear clouds, smoke trees, Wujiang, where the countryside is, the silver platform and the white tower, and the autumn wind and autumn rain comfort the loyal soul. ? This elegy not only fully reveals the author's profound literary talent, but also profoundly expresses the author's high patriotic enthusiasm.
Ji Hongchang's former residence
The author of the elegiac couplet was a tongcheng middle school student, who was only 16 years old at that time. He was Ma Maoyuan, who later became a famous scholar in Chinese literary circles and a great scholar of Chu Ci.
Some people can't write elegiac couplets themselves, so they ask others to write them for them, and the writers on their behalf must devote themselves to the unique feelings of the couplets for the deceased. Fang Xiaoxu (the son of Fang Shoudun, a famous sinologist and calligrapher in Tongcheng, and the father of Fang Weide, a famous poet in Crescent School) died in 1953. The sons and nephews of Mr. Xiaoxu, such as Dialect and Shu Wu, returned from Beijing and Hangzhou to attend the funeral.
At that time, Dai Jiafu, the postman of the post office, often sent letters to Fang's family. He wanted to send an elegiac couplet to show his respect to the old gentleman, but he couldn't write it himself, so he asked Mr. Fang Linchen, who was well versed in sinology in the city at that time, to write it for him. Lao Dai told Fang Lao about his feelings. After a moment's meditation, Mr. Fang immediately wrote such a special elegy. When you reach the age of ancient times, there are children who are in mourning for thousands of miles, so you should be happy to travel in the sky; I am a green ambassador, and Mr. Gan is always diligent in teaching, so I am afraid to cross the door now. ? This elegiac couplet is called a must by people of culture such as dialect, Fang Lu, Shu Wu and Tongcheng scholars. Fang Lingwan (the younger sister of Mr. Xiao Xu, a famous writer) said, this? Now and then, afraid to cross the door? In a word, is it like Li Qingzhao's? I'm afraid that the boat can't move and I'm worried. ? Mr. Fang Linchen made such a good association, except for his profound knowledge of ancient Chinese, which was mainly moved by the postman's true feelings.
After the completion of Liangbi Bridge in Tongcheng, nearby farmers often go to the bridge to enjoy the cool in summer nights. One day, an official of the Governor's Office in Anqing passed by the bridge in a sedan chair. A farmer blocked the sedan chair and asked the official to make a couplet, and made a couplet with the word Liangbi and its homophones, demanding that the other party also use homophones for place names. What is the first part of the peasant's posting? Liangbi bridge, enjoy the cool on the bridge, cool until midnight, cool until the end. ? The official got off the sedan chair and paced back and forth, but he couldn't answer it and left embarrassed. When I arrived at the Lu Tingyi, Tongbei Road, it rained and I had to stay. At dawn, the rain stopped. At this time, the official suddenly came up with inspiration and made a couplet. Lu Tingyi. It rained in the post, until dawn, and it stopped raining. ?
liangbi bridge
Tongcheng folk often use couplets? Debate? Some? Debate? Sex couplets are very interesting. According to legend, there is a teacher in Dongxiang who is over half a hundred years old. There are more than ten children in the museum, including one surnamed Shi, who is ten years old and whose family is a famous local family. One day, the teacher saw a man with a silk belt passing by in front of the museum, so he gave the primary school boy a couplet and asked that the couplet must have words such as silk. The couplet given by Mr. Wang was: Six feet where to go, three feet around the waist and three feet falling. ? Primary school children can't get along, the old man said? Go home and think about it, and hand in your papers tomorrow. ?
after the students came home, they told their sister. My sister thought that the old gentleman was too strict, so she playfully teased the old gentleman and made a couplet for her younger brother. A bed of brocade quilt, half a bed covered with elder sister and half an empty bed. ? The next day, the pupil gave it to Mr. Wang, who asked:? Did you make this yourself? Students tell the truth. The old gentleman was a little evil at the moment, but knowing that he couldn't make a move on this lady, he made another couplet: The tree is deep-rooted, so how can a woodcutter do it? ? Pupils took it home and gave it to their sister. She was angry and funny, and she made a bottom line: The river is wide and surging, and the fisherman is advised to turn back as soon as possible. ? After reading it, Old Master Q thought that the trouble was started by your daughter, and she was dissatisfied with it, so she went out to argue with it. Bamboo is unintentional, and there are many branches next to it? ; When the young lady saw it, she replied confidently:? Although the lotus root has holes, it is not contaminated with sludge. ?
At first glance, Mr. Wang admired this young lady's talent deeply and wanted to go to the door for advice. After the primary school students told her sister about the teacher's request, her sister said: Please ask the old gentleman to look at the garden on the slope outside the back garden wall. ? At the invitation of the old gentleman, he came to the garden on the slope and saw that the primary school students and their sisters were watching flowers hand in hand in the garden. The old man saw that this talented daughter turned out to be a girl of twelve or three years old. Because the first two pairs were wronged, they hummed awkwardly:? The cockscomb in the garden is not in bloom. ? Hearing this, the young lady immediately retaliated:? Mr. wall bristlegrass. ?
antithetical couplets can be used to argue and swear. It is said that Dai Mingshi used antithetical couplets to curse the emperor. One spring day, the precious ink peony in the imperial garden opened and the emperor invited him to watch it. After he read it, the emperor asked him to make a couplet, and Dai Mingshi wrote a book:? Take Zhu Fei primly, heterogeneous also king. ? After Dai Mingshi? Literary inquisition? Be tortured by beheading. Before the execution, the imperial court sent an academician to supervise the execution, and a talented fellow supervisor? Offend? Carpenters accompany the chop. When he was taken to the execution ground, the supervisor beheaded Hanlin and asked the carpenter to go out and ask Dai Mingshi. Yes, the carpenter said, Carpenters flail. Carpenters flail? ; Dai Mingshi also used the bottom line to scold the prison officer:? Hanlin supervisor beheaded Hanlin. ? ;