2. The couplet means: How can reeds grow on the wall? Although the bamboo shoots in the mountains have thick skins, they are actually hollow. What is there to be proud of?
3. The irony of couplets: describing a person who is overreached, frivolous and uneducated, with a sharp mouth and a slippery tongue, and a half bottle hanging in the air; It is a derogatory term for some arrogant people who are dissatisfied with a bottle, talk nonsense and have no ink in their hearts.
This famous couplet was written by Jie Jin, a famous scholar in Ming Dynasty, when he was the editor-in-chief of Yongle Dadian at the age of 34. This couplet is enough to show that Jie Jin's literary talent is extraordinary.
5. 194 1 year, Mao Zedong wrote an article in Yan 'an entitled "Transforming Our Learning". In the article, Mao Zedong quoted a pair: "The reeds on the wall are top-heavy and shallow; The bamboo shoots in the mountains are thick and empty. " Mao Zedong criticized those who were "flashy, brittle but not firm" and "thought I was the best in the world".
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Jie Jin was a clever man since he was a child. His articles are elegant and wonderful, his poems are rich and elegant, his calligraphy is excellent in small letters, and he is good at cursive writing, especially in Weeds. Together with Xu Wei and Yang Shen, he is also known as the three great talents of Ming Dynasty, and he has written Collection of Xie Xueshi and Tian Huangyu. President Lu and Biography of Ancient and Modern Women: presided over the compilation of Yongle Grand Ceremony; Ink marks include poems in books, poems and songs in the Tang Dynasty, and anecdotes about Zhao Heng's imperial examinations in the Song Dynasty.
Jie Jin is brilliant, so he can't stop writing, especially five-character poems, of which there are more than 500. His classical songs are unrestrained and imaginative, almost like Li Bai, while his metrical poems are almost the same as those of the Tang Dynasty. Jie Jin's articles are elegant, quaint and unique. His political essays are straightforward, magnificent, and his biography is concise and vivid. ?
Zou Yuanbiao praised him: "Righteousness is strong for a thousand years, and articles are respected for a hundred generations." Jie Jin's greatest achievement in his life is that he personally presided over the compilation of Yongle Dadian, which is the largest kind of book in China, and is called "the source of compiling ancient books" by academic circles, while Encyclopedia Britannica is called "the largest encyclopedia in world history" in the encyclopedia category.
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