Source: "Copper Pot Poetry";
Author: Zheng Banqiao;
Year: Qing Dynasty;
Original text:
He is called a hero because he has a big mouth, a high nose and ears, and burns himself.
How can a small amount hold a big thing? Two or three inches of water will set off waves. ?
The vernacular means:
Copper hukou has a big belly, but a high and straight nose. It is not afraid of being burned by firewood under the teapot. A generation of heroes.
How do people with small stomachs do big things? A little water can make a dog stir up a thousand waves.
Extended data:
Zheng Banqiao's later years.
In the eighteenth year of Qianlong (1753), Zheng Banqiao was sixty-one years old, who made profits for the people and entered the DPRK. When we arrived in Weifang, the people blocked the way, and every family made a portrait to offer sacrifices, and spontaneously set up a shrine for Zheng Banqiao in Weicheng Island Temple. After leaving office, Banqiao made a living by selling paintings, traveled between Yangzhou and Xinghua, and interacted with fellow painters and poets.
In the 19th year of Qianlong (1754), he traveled to Hangzhou, Zheng Banqiao. After Qiantang, go to Huiji, explore Yu's point, visit Lanting, and go back and forth.
In the twenty-second year of Qianlong (1757), I participated in the renovation of Hongqiao hosted by Yu Jian, the traffic Commissioner of Huaibei and Huaihe River, and got to know Yuan Mei, and they had poems with each other. During this period, Banqiao made many paintings and calligraphy works, which were widely circulated.
In the 30th year of Qianlong (17665438+1October 22nd), Banqiao died of illness and was buried in Ruanzhuang, Chengguan, xinghua city at the age of 73.
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