This couplet is very unique. First, it adopts the self-alignment rule. In other words, those who are close to Mexico are black to those who are close to Zhu Zhechi, while those who sympathize with each other are corresponding to each other. Why are you right? In fact, these two groups are far-reaching folk sayings.
Those who are near ink are black, those who are near Zhu Zhechi are black. Metaphorically, being close to good people can make people better, while being close to bad people can make people worse. Reaction at the same time, the same spirit, the same sound can produce * * * sound, the same smell will be integrated with each other, that is, similar things are induced by each other, that is to say, like-minded people echo each other.
Another beauty of couplets is the combination of life phenomena and common sayings. They were not related originally, but they were organically combined and became a philosophical exposition, which was very tasty.
Specifically, the phenomenon of "Huayang entering the inkstone pool" just fulfilled the saying that "those who are near Zhu Zhechi are black". "Both swallows flew over the curtain" became a "simultaneous response, common aspiration". So this couplet is very tasty and easy to understand. Even children can easily understand the meaning of couplets, and naturally it is easy to spread.
The second couplet: the lotus is defeated, and the fallen leaves are rooted in the old lotus root; When the grain in Huangdao is ripe, rice is new now.
This pair of couplets uses many techniques such as homophonic and pun, and there is an interesting story behind it, which makes people relish. It is said that there was a scholar in ancient times who passed the examination of Jinshi and became an official. When he is rich and beautiful, his mind floats and he wants to marry a concubine and a little wife.
The scholar thought to himself, "I'm such an ugly old woman, and I don't deserve my present scenery." I must marry a beautiful little beauty, so as not to be an official for nothing! Isn't it just to make money and marry a little wife that you take great pains to be an official?
However, what if I just say I want to take a concubine and this yellow-faced woman makes a scene? She said I was Chen Shimei. I just became an official, and my reputation can't be ruined. Yes, I will write a sentence and test her. So, the scholar found a lotus root and wrote a sentence on his wife's dresser: "The lotus root is defeated, and the leaves belong to the old lotus root."
This is a pun, "lotus root" homophonic "even". On the surface, the lotus is old, and so is the lotus root. In fact, it means that the wife has become a yellow-faced woman, which is unbearable to appreciate. The scholar's wife, before she married the scholar, was also a talented woman who knew poetry couplets.
After marriage, in order to provide a place for the scholar to study wholeheartedly, she worked hard for this family, weaving and cooking all day, and even had no time to rest. Really paid a lot for this family. It's all right now. As soon as the family improves, the husband will change his mind, like the new and hate the old, and will want to marry a little wife.
Such a man has no conscience! My wife is very bitter, and tears have already flowed out of her eyes. But my wife didn't cry, make trouble or hang herself, but chose to back down. My wife remembered the story that Zhuo Wenjun dissuaded Sima Xiangru from taking concubinage with "The Ballad of the Bald Head", so she decided to follow Zhuo Wenjun's example and invited people to move people with emotion.
Seeing the scholar's words, she wrote a couplet: "The ecliptic is ripe and the rice is new." The literal meaning of this sentence is that the leaves of the grain turn yellow and the rice is ripe. Blow off the chaff on the surface and the rice grains will come out. In fact, the homophonic vowel means that the wife is "dross", the bride is "good rice", and the scholar burns the bridge, only the new one laughs and the old one doesn't cry.
From the antithesis point of view, this pair of couplets is neat and neat, and from the moral point of view, the couplets are even more ingenious and punning. When the scholar saw his wife's bottom line, he was still thinking about marrying a little wife, but when he saw this bottom line, he had to give up for the time being.
The reason is that my wife's bottom line is so right that I believe it will spread soon. Soon, everyone knew that the scholar had the idea of marrying a little wife and was going to be Chen Shimei. If you really marry a little wife, your reputation will be completely bad. At this time, you can only stay put, choose a golden house to hide your beauty, and secretly raise a little wife outside.
The scholar thought, "Don't many officials do this?" Why do you have to ask your wife's permission to marry a little wife? "So the scholar pretended to be generous and bowed to his wife to apologize:" Dear wife, I was confused at the moment. You must forgive me. "My wife is also very happy:" The prodigal son will never change his money, and I forgive you! " "
This pair of couplets spread with the story. As for whether there is a little wife behind this scholar, that is God knows!