Author: Su Shi (Song Dynasty)
Eighteen brides are eighty lang, with gray hair and red makeup.
Two nights of mandarin duck quilt, pear tree pressing begonia.
Explanation:
The 80-year-old man married a 18-year-old bride, whose white hair was in sharp contrast with the bride's beautiful red makeup.
On their wedding night, they are like white pear flowers and pink begonia together.
Extended data:
Creative background:
Zhang Xian was written by Su Dongpo at Zhang Xian's wedding. Mr. Zhang's life is very romantic, and it has always been like this. Eighty-year-old, married a girl of 18, and happily wrote a poem: 80 years old and 18 years old, Qing is a beauty with white hair. It's the same as Qing's upside down, except that there is a flower in the middle. Su Dongpo immediately replied a poem to tease Zhang Xian.
Appreciate:
This poem is full of banter. The poem consists of four sentences, three of which are comparisons. In the first sentence, Zhang Xian is eighty years old and his bride is only eighteen. The second sentence, the groom is already white-haired, but the bride is a peach blossom; In the fourth sentence, Zhang Sheng is compared to a white pear flower, and the bride is compared to a pink begonia, which is mocking the wedding of an old man with few wives.