Bamboo shoots in the mountains have a thick mouth and an empty stomach.
This famous couplet was written by Jie Jin, a famous scholar in Ming Dynasty and editor-in-chief of Yongle Dadian. This couplet is enough to show that Jie Jin's literary talent is extraordinary. However, it is precisely because of this couplet that it eventually died. It is inevitable to read history in this book. It is doomed to be a political tragedy for a scholar to meet a villain.
Jie Jin skillfully revised the couplets.
Jie Jin, a great talent and calligrapher in Ming Dynasty, was brilliant since childhood. When he was young, his family lived across the hall from Cao Shangshu. This Spring Festival, Jie Jin posted a couplet on his door. The first couplet is: door to thousand bamboo poles; The bottom line is: there are thousands of books in my family. Cao Shangshu was very unhappy when he learned that, so he ordered someone to cut a bamboo in the yard. Seeing this situation, Jie Jin added a sentence to the upper and lower couplet, which became: The door is as short as a thousand bamboo poles, and parents keep it in thousands of books. Cao Shangshu was even more angry when he saw it, so he ordered people to cut down all the bamboo. So Jie Jin added a sentence to the upper and lower couplet: bamboo is lacking under the door, and thousands of books is at home. Cao Shangshu had no choice but to meet this little neighbor for a while. On this day, Cao's eldest son greeted him at the street gate. Jie Jin refused to come in. The eldest son saw that his little neighbor was quite arrogant, so he sarcastically said, "The puppy can't get in the door, it's too narrow." Jie Jin immediately responded: "Dapeng spreads his wings and hates the sky." Big childe had to open the door to let him in. After being admitted to the hospital, the eldest son asked Jie Jin to sit in the side hall temporarily and report to the old man personally. After a while, Cao Shangshu came in and saw Jie Jin wearing a light green cotton-padded jacket. He casually recited, "The frog in the well is wearing a green coat." When Jie Jin saw that Cao Shangshu was wearing a red robe, he replied, "All the crabs in the pot are wearing red robes." At this moment, an old man and a young man looked at each other and couldn't help laughing. Jie Jin's literary talent left a deep impression on Cao Shangshu.
In the Ming Dynasty, there was a famous scholar named Jie Jin in Jishui, Jiangxi. He is familiar with piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and music, quick thinking, eloquent, humorous and witty, especially good at couplets, leaving many good stories. Born in a poor family, Jie Jin was determined to study hard to help the world from an early age. When Jie Jin was nine years old, the teacher took him to the river to take a bath. The teacher took off his clothes and hung them on a tree fork, and made a pair casually: a thousand-year-old tree as a hanger; Jie Jin looked at the surging river and correctly replied: The Yangtze River is used as a bathtub. After taking a bath, they met a passer-by on their way home and asked them where a family lived. As soon as the passers-by's voice fell, Jie Jin pointed to the center of the street and chanted, "The willows are placed east and west, the lions are squatting left and right, the red apricots are on the wall, and there are doors in the shade." Passers-by saw that he was young and witty, and they all praised him. They asked him whose child he was and what his parents did. Jie Jin smiled and said a couplet: Father lifted the sun and the moon; Mother's hand turned to Gan Kun. Passers-by thought for a long time, and he didn't know what it was. The teacher smiled and told him, "Teacher Wang didn't know that his family made a living by selling tofu. His mother grinds grinding bean curd all day and his father sells tofu along the street. Isn't it' shouldering the sun and the moon, turning hands to dry Kun'? " Hearing this, passers-by were surprised. Across the hall from home lived a rich gentleman named Zhao. One year on the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, Mr. Zhao hung lanterns all over his house and decorated it, killing chickens and geese to prepare for the New Year. Families in Jie Jin are surrounded by families, and the iron pot is cold. Jie Jin thought that the Spring Festival was coming, and it was time to celebrate the Spring Festival couplets. He glanced at the lush bamboo garden of Mr. Zhao's house opposite the door, took out his pen and ink and wrote a pair of Spring Festival couplets: the door is facing a thousand bamboos; I live in thousands of books. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Mr. Zhao went out to see this pair of Spring Festival couplets and was greatly annoyed. Poor or poor, Happy New Year. He called his slaves and ordered the garden to be completely cut down. When Jie Jin saw this scene, he knew that it was caused by Mr. Zhao's dark psychology. He is annoying and happy. He added a sentence at the end of the couplet, which became: the door is as short as a thousand bamboos; Thousands of books's family has a long history. When Mr. Zhao saw it, he was so angry that he ordered all bamboo poles to be uprooted. As soon as Jie Jin saw it, he added a sentence at the end of the couplet, which became: the door is short of thousands of bamboos; My home is in thousands of books. Mr. Zhao was too angry to speak. He pulled out a beard. Since then, Jie Jin's reputation has spread all over Jishui area. Jishui has an idle family background. He heard that Jie Jin's couplets were good, but he didn't believe them. He specially sent someone to Jie Jin to prepare some couplets, so that he could get it right and make a fool of himself in public. Shangshu sent for Jie Jin, but he couldn't enter through the gate, only through a narrow passage. Jie Jin refused to enter. After hearing the news, Shangshu walked out of the mansion and sang the first couplet: Xiaolong is ignorant and thinks the road is narrow; Jie Jin held his head high and replied, Dapeng is interested in hating the sky. Shangshu had to invite him to enter the official residence from the gate. Entering the living room, as soon as he was seated, an aide of Shangshu had sung a couplet: Heaven is a chessboard star, who can get off; Jie Jin answered the question: Pipa Road is on the ground, so how dare you play it? Seeing that Jie Jin was wearing a green robe, Shangshu wrote another couplet: Toad went out of the well to wear a green coat; Jie Jin looked at Shangshu and saw that he was wearing a red robe. The next couplet is easy to read: the crab in the pot is wearing a red robe. Shangshu was very angry, but he tried to be calm and wrote another couplet: two apes cut down trees on the mountain, and the little monkey dared to saw (sentence); Jie Jin was rude, and immediately retorted, How can an old beast run out of his hoof when a horse is stuck in the mud? Everyone present hid their faces and smiled. Only Master Shangshu was tongue-tied and ashamed, so he had to retreat under the pretext of being unwell. There is a famous scholar in Jishui, who is called Red Scholar. I heard that Jie Jin is proficient in poetry, and I really want to have a try with him. One day, Hong Xiucai found Jie Jin and said, "I came to my relatives' house yesterday, first by ox cart, then by donkey, and finally by horse, and I ran faster;" "When he came to his master's door, the horse gave a cry, and the chickens and ducks flew about in fright. One of them was caught by an eagle in the sky. So I thought of a pair of couplets and asked my brother together. The couplet is: the cow runs, the donkey runs, and the horse can't run; Chickens, ducks and eagles can't fly. Jie Jin knew at a glance that this pair of couplets suggested that he was quick in thinking and writing. This couplet implies that he is an eagle and can catch chickens. This means that Jie Jin will be caught like a chicken. Jie Jin's scholarship is rigorous, and he has always disliked those who like to show off their talents without real talent. He smiled and said, "I also gave my husband a pair of couplets." So he wrote: the reeds on the wall are top-heavy and light, and the water is shallow; Bamboo shoots in the mountains have a thick mouth and an empty stomach. After reading it, the red scholar trembled with shame, but he was speechless and had to leave. So the story of Jie Jin's anger at Redology became a much-told story, which has been passed down to this day.