Chapter-splitting poems
Among the strange poems, there is a funny word-splitting poem, which is to separate the characters according to the characteristics of Chinese characters to imply a certain Chinese character. Poems with split characters existed as early as the Han Dynasty. It is said that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo's dictatorship was wreaking havoc. There is a folk song "Song of Resentment" that goes:
Thousands of miles of grass, He Qingqing,
Ten miles of divination, no life.
The word "Qianlicao" is separated from the word "Dong"; the word "Shilibu" is separated from the word "Zhuo". This poetic meaning is to say, how come the person named "Dong" has such deep roots and luxuriant leaves? Whoever is called "Zhuo" won't let us live. This poem implicitly expresses infinite resentment.
Lu Guimeng, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote five poems with split characters. One of them, "Mingxiao Zao", says:
When I am free, I lean on my stick and firewood at the door, and the birds are sucking late insects from the deep branches.
Zhou Bu spent half a day in a pond, and after ten years of listening to this, his temples were like combs.
This poem is titled "Ming Xizao", which can be broken down into six characters: "Kou Niao Chong Zhou Zao Ten". The author skillfully arranges these six words in fixed positions at the beginning and end of the sentence, so that the content is integrated into the poem and integrated into one, without any inlay, making it unique and original in form.
Chapter-splitting poetry
Chapter-splitting poetry is based on the characteristics of Chinese characters, splitting the combined characters into single characters, or splitting them into related parts (adding single characters to the radicals), and perfunctoryly forming articles. Splitting poems are similar to acrostic poems, but they are not the same.
(1) Turtle and Turtle
It is said that when Su Dongpo was an official, he went on a trip incognito. He met several local squires who were hosting a banquet to celebrate their birthday, so he went to visit. Among the guests were two bureaucrats who were extremely angry, one named Yang Gui and the other Wang Bi. The two of them composed poems together at the table without asking who the visitor was.
Wang Biyun:
A friend lasts two months, the same color as frost and snow.
I don’t know which month it will be frosty or which month it will snow?
Yang Guiyun:
A word "LV" with two mouths, the same color tea and wine.
I don’t know which mouth to drink tea from, and which mouth to drink wine from?
Su Dongpo said:
One word for two means two words for one, and the same color means tortoise and turtle.
I wonder which one is the turtle and which one is the turtle?
Note: turtle is homophonic to Yang Gui’s “gui”; turtle: homophonic to Wang Bi’s “pen”.
(2), Gillian Poem
Su Dongpo had a maid named Chaoyun, who was very smart. Once she went to wash rice under a bridge and was pestered by a helpless scholar. The scholar said:
If there is wood, it will be a bridge, but if there is no wood, it will be Qiao.
Go to the wood and add a daughter, and the addition of a daughter will make you sweet.
Gillian avoids me, I love Gillian the most.
Chao Yun smiled lightly and immediately answered correctly:
If you have women, you will be a source of food, but if you don’t have rice, you will be good.
If you go to rice and add a daughter, you will be your mother.
Although I love my son, my son does not respect me.
(3) Poems by Liu Yizhi, Song Dynasty
The stone skin is broken but still strong, and the ancient wood is withered and will not die.
Why should Keren come? The meaning is as heavy as a thousand miles.
I always say that I sing about the yellow swan, and the hearts of those with lofty ideals are endless.
Liu Yizhi (1079---1160) was a famous scholar in the early Southern Song Dynasty. He was an official with integrity and integrity, was erudite and talented, and his poems were impressive. There is a biography in "History of the Song Dynasty". The clever thing about this poem is that except for the sixth and eighth sentences, the third character of each sentence can be split into the first two characters. For example, "明" can be split into "sun" and "moon", and "Lan" can be split into "mountain" and "wind", etc.; in the sixth sentence, "heavy" is replaced by "thousands of miles", and in the eighth sentence, "ambition" is replaced by "scholar's heart".
Three friends were drinking and ordering in a pub. One of them was depressed because he was dismissed from office and neglected his duties. The other laughed at him and said:
If there is water, it is also a stream, and if there is no water, it is also a ridicule.
Go to the stream and add a bird to the water, and it will become a chicken.
The powerful cat is as strong as the tiger,
The phoenix with its feathers is not as good as the chicken. [Chicken Traditional: Xi + Bird]
After hearing this, the dismissed man was not willing to be outdone and retorted:
With wood, it is also chess, and without wood, it is also chess.
If you go to the edge of the chess piece, it will become a deception if you add any debt.
A fish swimming in shallow water is teased by a shrimp,
A tiger falls on the plain and is bullied by a dog.
The third friend saw the two of them quarreling with each other and was worried that they would not be able to get off the stage, so he quickly smoothed things over and said:
If there is water, it is Hunan, and if there is no water, it is also Xiang.
Going to the Xiangbian River, the rain will turn into frost.
Each family sweeps the snow in front of their own door,
Don’t worry about the frost on other people’s tiles.
Wonderful; the word splitting order is also a drinking order, a word game often played by the ancients.
You add water to make wine, and before you die, you will become drunk;
If you turn against dog and you, you will be the same; if you add water to the state, you will be rewarded;
If the wine is not intoxicating, everyone will get drunk.
Send a small order as a reward.