Two nights of mandarin duck quilt, pear tree pressing begonia.
Some people on the Internet regard "A Pear Blossom Blossoms Begonia" as Su Shi's work of teasing Zhang Xi 'an to take a concubine, which is wrong.
"A pear tree hits a begonia" is a popular folk joke in note novels since the Ming Dynasty, and the earliest version found at present comes from "Notes outside Yaoshan Hall" written by Jiang Yikui in the Ming Dynasty [2]. Later books, such as Beihua Monthly, Luji Teahouse and Picked up Wisdom, all included similar passages, with different protagonists and poems, but they did not say that the author was Su Shi, only that it was written by a folk "some Weng", "Xu Mou of Dinghai, Zhejiang" or "Weng Chen, a Shanghai poet". [ 1]
It was not until 1980s that Su Shi wrote "a pear flower hits a begonia" to mock Zhang Xian. This statement confuses folk stories with historical facts. [1] Su Shi did make a poem reconciliation because Zhang Xi 'an took a concubine. Su Shi wrote the poem "Zhang Ziye bought a concubine at the age of eighty-five" [3], but Zhang Xian's poem did not survive. In Ye Mengde's Shi Lin Shi Hua in Song Dynasty, there are two sentences: Worry is like a squid forever knowing the night, and laziness is busy with the butterfly. [4]
Because they are all writing poems to tease elderly husbands to get married, in the process of circulation, elegant original poems are replaced by more popular and straightforward folk jokes, which leads many people to mistake them for truth.
A pear flower on the begonia is a euphemism for "the old cow eats the young grass": the pear flower is white, which means the old man with white hair; Haitang is red, which means a young woman has a beautiful face. A word "pressure" is extremely ambiguous.
This sentence comes from a poem by Su Shi. At the age of 80, he teased his friend Zhang Xian and asked him to marry a concubine of 18. The original poem is as follows:
Eighteen brides, eighty lang,
Gray hair and red makeup.
Yuanyang stayed in the quilt for two nights.
A pear tree pressed begonia.
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1, Su Shi:
Su Shi (1037-1101) was born in Meishan, Meizhou (now Meishan City, Sichuan Province), a writer in the northern song dynasty in China, a member of the "Three Sus" family, and one of the "Eight Masters" in Tang and Song Dynasties. His poetry, ci, fu and prose all have high achievements, and he is good at calligraphy and painting. He is a rare all-rounder in the history of literature and art in China, and he is also recognized as one of the most outstanding people in literature and art in China for thousands of years. His prose and Ouyang Xiu are called Ou Su; Poetry and Huang Tingjian are called Su Huang and Lu You is called Sulu. Ci and Xin Qiji are collectively called Su Xin; His paintings started the Huzhou School of Painting. There are more than 3,900 existing poems, and the representative works include When is the Bright Moon, Niannujiao's Nostalgia on Red Cliff, Red Cliff Fu and so on.