. It is said that Zhang Xian married a 18-year-old concubine at the age of 80. Dongpo quipped:
"Eighteen brides and eighty lang, with grey hair and red makeup.
Two nights of mandarin duck quilt, pear tree pressing begonia. "
Pear flower refers to a white-haired husband, Haitang refers to a beautiful young woman, and there are countless unspoken words on a "pressure" road!
In Qing Dynasty, Liu Tingji wrote in In Garden Magazine that one spring he went to Huaibei to inspect his subordinates and "passed by Suqian's family". See.
On the steps of the thatched cottage, the flowers and trees are jagged, and the path is quite secluded. In particular, I found that "the pear blossoms in the small garden are the most abundant, and there are as many as snow, and the begonia is next."
Plant, red unsurpassed ",this scene, made him" laugh "to think of a quatrain about the old man concubinage:
"February 28th beauty 79 lang, rustling white hair and red makeup.
Help pigeons laugh like mandarin ducks, and a pear tree presses Haitang. "
This is the same as Su Shi's meaning.
It turns out that "a pear tree hits a begonia" is a euphemism for the elderly with few wives, that is, "the old cow eats the young grass"