We can understand Su Shi's poem "Playing Zhang Xian" in this way: the bride is a girl who just turned eighteen, and the groom is an 80-year-old man, one with gray hair and the other shy and lovely. When sleeping at night, doesn't the pear tree press the begonia?
Su Shi wrote this poem in the background when Su Dongpo was working in the National Museum of Literature and History and doing some leisure work. When he is bored, he often chats with friends and kills time, so he makes many fair-weather friends. In this process, Zhang Xian invited a group of friends to drink and chat, and Su Dongpo was one of them.
When they arrived in Zhangfu, everyone saw the shy bride and everyone was envious. They want Zhang Xian to talk about his feelings. Zhang Xian is very proud of this. When he was happy, he said, "I am eighty and eighteen, and your beauty has turned me white." The same age as Qing, only separated by a flower. "
Hearing this, the crowd booed, but they were helpless. Seeing that Zhang Xian was very proud, Su Shi felt that he could not see the past, so he casually wrote this limerick.
In this poem, the most classic is the ending sentence "A pear tree hits a begonia". It is vivid to compare Zhang Xian's white hair with pear blossoms and his charming young wife with Haitang. Of course, this poem is more of a joke, so it doesn't hurt the feelings of two people.