Eighteen brides are eighty lang, with gray hair and red makeup.
Two nights of mandarin duck quilt, pear tree pressing begonia.
It means 18-year-old bride and 80-year-old Sina, with white hair facing the beautiful young girl. In the evening, the husband and wife are as touching as mandarin ducks, just like the white pear blossoms full of trees overwhelming the bright begonia.
A dramatic story written for Zhang Xi 'an.
Su Dongpo is also a very interesting person. When he heard about Zhang Xian's wedding, he improvised a poem "Playing for Zhang Xian". In this poem, the word "pressure" has infinite meaning. Pear flower is white, corresponding to "white hair", which of course refers to the groom's official; Begonia is red, which corresponds to "red makeup" and symbolizes the bride. Su Shi used this word to tease old friends.
And Zhang Xian in this poem is the representative of graceful and restrained school. Tiansheng eight years (AD 1030) Jinshi. He has served as a judge in Suzhou, Wujiang and Jiahe (now Jiaxing, Zhejiang). In the second year of Emperor Yangdi (1050), Yan Shu studied Yongxing Army (now Xi 'an, Shaanxi Province) and was appointed as a general judge. Later, Yuan Wailang, who settled in other places, met Yuzhou and Zhou Guo. Anlu is known for its taste, so it is called "Zhang Anlu". In the first year of Zhiping (1064), an official in Shangshu capital was a doctor, and he died in the first year of Yuanfeng at the age of 88.