"Teach you to take charge of not being in charge, and be in charge at sixes and sevens. Seven things to get up in the morning, rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar tea. " This is a line poem that appeared in the drama Baihua Pavilion in the Yuan Dynasty, and it is also the earliest poem with "Seven Things Open the Door".
However, Zhou Tingzhai of the Yuan Dynasty took a different approach and wrote a song about "Seven Things": "There are seven things when you lean against the awning window. Why do you do it?" Wood is like ganoderma lucidum, oil is like nectar, rice is like cinnabar, sauce Weng is just a dream, salt bottles are exhausted, tea is not much, vinegar is not much, and seven things are still difficult How can I teach Yuen Long to explore flowers! "How can a poor scholar study poetry when he is worried about seven things? This situation makes people cry.
Tang Bohu, a gifted scholar in the Ming Dynasty, once wrote a poem entitled "Thirty Years": "All the rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are in other people's homes. There is nothing to do at the end of the year, and Zhutang Temple sees plum blossoms. " There is nothing in the seven things, which can be described as extremely poor.
There is another interesting story among the people. A woman was dissatisfied with her husband's concubinage, but it was inconvenient to say it, so she wrote a poem for her husband: "Congratulations to Lang Jun for having her again. I want to wash my hands now. When you open the door, you will be given everything, with rice, oil and salt sauce and fragrant tea. " Only six of the "seven things" were sent, but the word "vinegar" was not mentioned. It was obviously "congratulations" but actually "jealousy", which made people laugh after reading it.