Tzu Aunt went through the mountains to pick red flowers, and traveled all over the raw and ripe fields;
Suzi crossed the river to find comfrey, and climbed Changshan and Huaishan.
——The names of 10 traditional Chinese medicines are cleverly used to express the hard work of collecting the medicines. They are naturally pure and elegant.
May the wolf enjoy a thousand years of health alone;
May the privet be green all year round.
——Someone gave a friend a unique wedding couplet: "May the wolf (Lang) enjoy a thousand years of health alone, and may the privet (truly) be green all year round." Among them, "Wolf alone" and "Millennium health" "Ligustrum lucidum" and "Sijiqing" are both medicinal names. They use homophonic pronunciation to give new meanings, which are ingenious and quite interesting.
A pair of couplets with golden characters in official script and woodcuts hangs next to the old shop of Renhetang in Neijiang, Sichuan: "Shu Di welcomes the white-headed and beneficial mother and the matchmaker is happy at first sight; Huaishan sends the morning glory country's old envoy Jun Qianjian." Such couplets There are many words, and many pharmacies use medicinal couplets to pray for prosperity: "Sea dragons, sea horses, and sea horses spread all over the world, and red flowers and red vines are azaleas." "Amber and indigo are the general's mansion, and Polygonatum odorifera is the home of the country." "The store is filled with the fragrance of alpinia and xanthate. The above-mentioned medicinal couplets include both advertisements and traditional ones, such as: "Magnolia officinalis inherits the magical pesticide and calmly prepares Zhongjing prescription with Cistanches." There are also couplets that explain the medical properties of the medicine, such as: " Licorice combines with other medicines, and mung beans relieve all kinds of toxins. "Ma Gui takes the lead in dispersing cold and loosening algae."
Mr. He Jiuxiang, a Ming doctor from Hubei Province in the late Qing Dynasty, was deeply saddened after his mother died of illness. , so he wrote a couplet on the door of a drugstore: "Only a foolish boy gradually looks forward to Polygala, and no loving mother looks forward to Angelica." With a unique idea, he embedded the two traditional Chinese medicine names of Polygala and Angelica to express his grief and longing for his loving mother. It can be described as sentimental. Sincerely. "Carrying the old, the mother-in-law carries the mother across the bridge; supporting the young, the white-headed man helps the son to Changshan." This is a couplet from a drugstore in an ancient city in the south of the Yangtze River. This couplet is embedded with six flavors. Traditional Chinese medicine: Qinghuizi, Pulsatilla and Changshan Sanwei are the original names. Fritillaria, Forsythia and Aconite each have a homophonic word. The whole couplet implies that doctors should have the noble medical ethics of rescuing the wounded and relieving the suffering.
"The ripe land welcomes the white-headed and beneficial mother, the matchmaker is happy at the first sight, and the Huaishan sends the morning glory country's old envoy Jun Qianqianjian." This couplet is a wooden couplet in official script hanging next to the door of a traditional Chinese medicine shop in Neijiang City, Sichuan. It is cleverly embedded with the names of ten traditional Chinese medicines: Rehmannia glutinosa, Pulsatilla, Motherwort, Red Lady, Yijianxi, Huaishan, Morning glory, Guolao (licorice), Shijunzi, Qianqianjian, connected by the words "ying" and "sending". , the dialogue is neat and quite decent. Xie Jin, the master of couplets in the Ming Dynasty, made countless wonderful couplets in his life, which are amazing. Among them is a couplet made of medicinal plants: "Pomegranate leaves, peach leaves and grape leaves, herbaceous and woody; plum blossoms, osmanthus roses, the fragrance of spring and autumn." This couplet seems very ordinary at first glance, and there is nothing unique and surprising about it, but After careful consideration and analysis, we can see the beauty of "a dark willow and a bright flower", which is really a strange combination. The strange thing is that the names of the two medicinal plants Pu and Peach in the first couplet happen to have the same pronunciation as the name of the third medicinal plant "Grape", and Pu is a herbaceous plant, while Peach and Grape are woody plants, so "herb" comes first. "Wood" is at the back to echo. Coincidentally, in the second line, plum and osmanthus are also the medicinal names of two plants, which happen to have the same pronunciation with the third medicinal plant "rose". Plum blossoms bloom in late winter and early spring, while osmanthus and roses bloom in summer and autumn, so they correspond to the previous sentence "spring fragrance and autumn fragrance". It can be said that it is so ingenious and well-deserved.