Couplets are often handed down with stories. In the process of spreading, they are often passed down from mouth to mouth in the form of stories, and together with the background and plot of creation, they become stories full of wisdom and interest.
Su Dongpo and Wang Anshi, great writers in the Song Dynasty, had a short rest in Bantang Village when they were playing in Suzhou. During the break, Wang Anshi sent a couplet and invited Su Shi to come. This couplet is: Qili Mountain Pond, Half-soup Trip for three and a half miles. Su Dongpo thought it was right at first, but when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't find the bottom connection between things and numbers. Su Shi felt a little ashamed. But it didn't take long for him to come up with an excellent bottom chain: Jiuxi is full of holes, passing through the middle hole and Wuxi. It can be seen that although Su Shi and Wang Anshi have different political views, they are still in appreciate each other.
In the Qing Dynasty, there was a rich man in the south of the Yangtze River. The rich man has no son, only one daughter.
Because there is only one precious daughter, the rich man put all his thoughts on her, not only making her pamper herself in life, but also hiring a teacher to study for her.
My daughter has grown up and is graceful when she comes out. Many big families in Shili Baxiang have come to propose marriage. The rich man also felt that the eldest daughter was not allowed to stay, and her daughter was of marriageable age. But when he mentioned it to his daughter, her daughter was very opposed. She doesn't object to marriage, but she doesn't want to marry an ordinary dude. My daughter thinks that a man's wealth and status are not important, but his talent is the most important. It seems that the ancients also liked interesting souls. It turns out that the daughter of a rich man likes learning very much and her talent is not lost to men. She became a talented local woman.
The rich man couldn't beat his daughter and had to follow her. The daughter's idea is that she wants to make couplets for marriage, and whoever can make couplets is her Mr. Right. The rich also think it would be nice if they could help their daughter find a husband who loves him in this way. Finally, the rich man announced his daughter's couplet: the butterfly on the iris. This couplet is wrong. The reduplication "butterfly" appears in couplets, which is very interesting and has a certain artistic conception.
When this couplet came out, it was really difficult for many people. Just when the talented woman thought that no one could be right, a passing scholar made a second couplet: Beauty in the Mirror.
This bottom line is not only neat, but also makes this talented woman blush. The rich man saw that the scholar, though shabby, was charming and ambitious, and promised to marry his daughter. In the end, the scholar won the beauty.