—— Author's Note
I believe everyone has heard of the Shanxi merchants, a business gang that has been all over the world for 5 years in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. When I came back from Shanxi, I didn't look at the hospital. Whose hospital did I look at? Just look at the high-walled courtyards that Shanxi merchants once built, such as Lingshi Wangs Courtyard, Yuci Changjia Manor, Taigu Caojia Courtyard, Qixian Qiaojia Courtyard and Qujia Courtyard. They were all rich, as you can imagine by looking at the size of the compound. However, are Shanxi businessmen just rich?
After a careful tour of Qujia Courtyard, I feel that Shanxi businessmen are really not only rich, but also have virtue and talent. Let's see the big picture from the small, and watch the couplets of Qujia family as the main line, with pictures and truth, and speak with facts. Please prepare your flexible fingers and shining eyes when you brush the screen. Well, it's best to mobilize your ... literary background again.
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I can't see clearly, can I? Maybe I don't know some traditional Chinese characters. It doesn't matter, let me provide you with a simplified version and a simple explanation. (You don't have to be infatuated with me, I don't know all about it. You will know all about it after a search ...) It's up to you to understand the taste and read the feelings, so you should calm down and read slowly, and no one will compete with you ...
There is calmness in every major event
I don't believe that there are no ancient sages today
This couplet is from Weng Tonghe, the third generation of emperors in the Qing Dynasty, to the effect that if you can be calm in every major event.
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Come to play in Qujia Courtyard, and this should be the first couplet you see. The couplets that enter the door are very important. You can feel the things posted on your door by big families and scholarly families.
Ming Avenue is not lofty
and in its prime to discuss the past and the present
This couplet was written by Mo Youzhi, a scholar and calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty. The general idea is that the avenue is simple, not lofty and unpredictable. When you reach a certain age and have a rich resume, you can talk and laugh about the past and the present. This couplet reveals the wisdom, self-confidence and open-mindedness of the host family.
let's take a look at what people hang up now.
Yes, yes ...
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This is the stage of Qujia Courtyard. Just go in through the gate, then lift your feet and turn left and then turn left. (There are many gates and small doors in Shanxi Courtyard, one after another, which I always think is very suitable for playing in the secret room to escape ~) The picture is not very good. I'm sure you can't see it clearly without zooming in, but don't miss these two couplets. Because after reading it, you will find that: you can read (laugh and cry)
borrow ancient metaphors to educate everyone to know ethics
take falsehood as truth to persuade the world to know right and wrong
some small stages can make the country and the world
ordinary people will regard each other as emperors
These two couplets actually tell the essence and function of opera, which are easy to understand, concise, neat and clear.
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? Happy every day
? Drink and eat for a long life
This couplet comes from Liu Yong, a scholar in Qing Dynasty. The general idea is: As long as you are happy every day and don't bother yourself, you will be broad-minded and fat; Pay attention to the soup and water in the diet, and the staple food and complementary food will be healthy and long-lived. These two sentences release a lot of information, which involves both physical and mental health. Keeping them in mind is helpful to cultivate one's self-cultivation.
The next few couplets are all about reading and writing articles. Don't be pressured. The gentle words won't remind you of a teacher who forced you to study. They sneak into the night with the wind and moisten things quietly. You can't stop reading if you don't want to ... Come and experience it together.
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? Three-way visitors around the house
A window full of rain and a book
This is also from Liu Yong, which means that the three of us are around a country, and the three-way visitors refer to Qianlong, Liu Yong and Heshen. I wonder where Ji Xiaolan has gone? ) the ups and downs are just the credit of a book. Look at the horizontal batch: the book tastes moist. Seeing this couplet, I have an impulse to grab a book and read it at once.
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Simplify Sanqiu Tree
Get a new February flower with different standards
This couplet comes from Zheng Banqiao, which is Zheng Banqiao's understanding of painting and is also suitable for writing articles. It is advocated to express the richest content with the most concise pen and ink, and to win more with a little. The works should be like February flowers, and one flower attracts a hundred flowers, which is full of vitality and creates a unique new style. I think you should have noticed the above three words, and meditated in your mind three times loudly: reading pleasure.
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I'm sure you are familiar with the phrase "self-glorifying with poetry and books", but what is its upper part? Come, let's sweep the blind area of knowledge together.
I'm drunk with ink-turned shirts and sleeves
I'm full of poetry and self-glorification
This couplet is made up of two sentences from two poems by Su Shi, the first part of which is from The Second Rhyme Su Bogu's Main Book, and the second part is from Leaving Dong Chuan. You may think it looks unfamiliar, which means you have a good memory. We really didn't recite ancient poems at our age. Compared with these two poems, this pair of couplets is more popular.
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? Be careful with your speech and diet
? The article on storing moral ability
This couplet comes from Zhang Yi, the top scholar in Xianfeng, Qing Dynasty, and warns himself from four aspects: words, diet, morality and articles. It is elegant, steady and thought-provoking.
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Gracious poetry and calligraphy ceremony
I've heard a lot from friends
After reading so much, do you want to study? If you don't want to, give you another one in your bedroom ~
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? Reading is high
You shouldn't think about anything else at this time ...
Qu Jia is a businessman, so you have to have some couplets about doing business. These couplets are magnificent and distinguished, which embodies the principle of integrity and fairness in doing business.
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? A piece of paper is popular all over the world
? Wanjin flows into China and the West
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? Why is it fair for Qin Quan to be magnanimous < P >? Snay's principle: Heaven rules the king, law the heart of the world
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? On the amount of celebrities and wise men
? From these couplets, it can be seen that the Qu family is not only rich, but also attaches importance to education and honesty, has a good family style and tradition of reading, and has an open mind and a long-term vision. No wonder they are rich, no wonder they have dominated the business world for more than a hundred years.
Actually, it's not just the Qu family, most of the Shanxi merchants are Confucian businessmen, who have money, academies and talents ... Maybe today we can read the stories of Shanxi merchants to earn money and look at their former residences to learn how to be a man.