Lecture on couplets 19: appreciation of five-character couplets

Two traditional five-character couplets have been published, mainly focusing on reinterpreting the classification of couplets. As a style, couplets are complicated to say, and it is difficult to appreciate them in detail because they are both five words and classification. Here, some famous five-character couplets are selected for appreciation, some are traditional couplets that are difficult to read directly, and some are couplets created by literati.

1, life is not as good as Bernard Shaw; Go after Gorky. Flat and light, flat and light.

This is a congratulatory message from General Ye Ting for Guo Tianruo's 50th birthday. Bernard Shaw and Gorky are great writers in Britain and Russia respectively. This metaphor is very appropriate. This is the general's reverence for Lao Guo. Bernard Shaw was born in 1956 and died in 1950. China algorithm lived to 95 years old. Guo Tianruo was born in 1892, and China's algorithm 1942 should celebrate its 50th birthday. At that time, Bernard Shaw was nearly ninety years old, which was already considered a high life.

2. Go to see the sun, although it is brilliant; It's too cold up there. Flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat flat.

This is the couplet of Zhenjiang Building in Jiangsu Province. The author Duan Fang in the Qing Dynasty (an engraver in the late Qing Dynasty, once served as Governor of Huguang and Governor of Liangjiang). This is a antithesis. The first couplet "Seeing the sun is all his glory" is a sentence in Li Shangyin's poem "Le You Ling". It's too cold. On the top of the second couplet, it's a sentence from Su Shi's poem "Water Tune Song Tou".

3. The sail is far and wide; There were months in the river. Flat and light, flat and light. The moon is so wide, it is ancient. )

This is Jinshan Loulian in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu. The author is unknown. This sentence pattern has its own characteristics. Although it is five words, it is also a compound sentence, because the sail is far away, so it floats wide; Because the river was empty for several months. Especially the next sentence, I really don't know where it comes from. Deliberate, rational, scenic, Zen, poetic.

4. Every day is a new day; * * * is chilling. Flat and light, flat and light.

This is a couplet presented by Mr Cai Yuanpei, president of Peking University, to graduates of Peking University. Although the training is not harmonious, it is profound and intriguing. It is the blogger's ambition to make innovations every day. The inscription from Shang Tang is "New, New, New". From Confucius' words, "when the cold comes and the summer goes, you will know that the pine and cypress are withered."

5. Why is the room elegant? Not many flowers. Flat and light, flat and light.

This is a couplet of Xinghua's former residence in Zheng Banqiao. Zheng Xie is one of the Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou. This couplet he wrote obviously belongs to the study couplet. It can be regarded as a "humble room inscription" in the form of couplets. According to legend, there are many couplets, and this one must be true. Flowers are more elegant than people, not in the room, but in the room.

6. Three Unique Poems, Paintings and Calligraphy; An official is back. Ping, ping, ping, ping.

This is another name for Zheng Banqiao. One is Zheng Banqiao versus Li Jiaocun, and the other is the legend that Li Jiaocun, a scholar from Yangzhou, gave A Zheng couplets when Zheng Banqiao abandoned his official position and visited Yangzhou. From the perspective of copyright, there are three theories to be tested: Zuo Li, Zuo Zheng and Cooperation. The Three Musts of Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting means that Zheng Banqiao's poems, books and paintings are unique, and together they are called the Three Musts. To return to come, all three words have the meaning of a verb. To borrow Tao Yuanming's "to return to come to Xi". The use of "going home" in Tao ci is only an episode, as opposed to the meaning of "going home". It means "trend", which is similar to the word "lai" called "turn" today. Borrowed as a verb here, the above three nouns calculate a sentence together, and the following three verbs also calculate a sentence together. Five-character couplets have no subject-predicate structure, but they are rich in connotation and are very clever loans.

7, iron shoulders bear morality; Write an article skillfully. Flat and light, flat and light.

This is a couplet presented by Li Dazhao to Yang Zihui. Because Li Dazhao is a professor, librarian and a great revolutionary and thinker in Peking University, his couplets have also become the spiritual resources of the producers of * * * and Peking University people. Yang Jisheng, a famous minister in the Ming Dynasty, wrote a pair of couplets, "Iron shoulders bear morality and painstakingly write articles." It is said that couplets were written in calligraphy for impeaching Yan Song and being executed. Li Dazhao borrowed the old meaning to promote the new "Tao" and changed the words into beauty, which can be said to be a good couplet for improvement and utilization.

8, listed as proletarians; Would rather not be revolutionary. It is flat, flat, flat. (Fair and just, but not fair and just. )

This is a mosaic. Since I am listed as one of the proletarians, how can I not be revolutionary? Empty word is often used, which means concise and powerful.

9. Action is the beginning of knowledge; Learning is not asking. Flat and light, flat and light.

Tao Xingzhi is the greatest educator in China in the 20th century, and his couplets are also widely circulated. First, there are wonderful principles; Second, there are common elegance and customs; Third, there are metrical workers. This couplet is closely related to his educational thought. Actually contains his own name. Knowing begins with doing, hence the name Xingzhi. Learning must depend on asking questions. In ancient times, the order of "Taoist inquiry and learning" was to ask first and then learn.

10, adjacent to water; Friendship lasts forever.

This is a couplet inscribed by calligrapher Fei Xinwo. It is political, communicative and unforgettable. When there is water, it is often said that Sino-Japanese relations are "only a strip of water". Evergreen is the name of a plant, which also contains eternal meaning.