In the list of couplet masters, Xie Jin is definitely one of the best. There are countless classic couplets about him. He also has many satirical couplets.
According to legend, Xie Jin was a Jinshi in high school at the age of ten. His literary talents aroused the jealousy of some people. Some people wanted to specifically dampen his spirit and humiliate him. Once again at a banquet, someone asked him to Xie Jin's couplets produced a first couplet.
The first couplet is: Two apes broke wood in the deep mountains, but the little monkey dared to saw again
The first couplet personified the matter very cleverly, "saw" and "sentence" are homophonic, It is implied that Jie Jin is as young as a little monkey, how can he compare with us elders? After finishing the couplet, the man smiled strangely. When Xie Jin heard this, he was obviously making fun of himself. Not to be outdone, he thought for a moment and wrote the second line,
The second line is, a horse is stuck in the mud, how can an old beast get out.
Wonderful! The second line also uses puns, the little monkey versus the old beast, versus the saw, the hoof, the couplet, the question. The perfect comeback. After ridiculing those elders, no one looked down on Jie Jin anymore.
Hidden word couplet, according to legend, a corrupt official built a merit archway and asked Pu Songling, who was famous at the time, to inscribe a couplet. Pu Songling knew that this man's surname was Wang and he was the eighth in the family. He was cunning, cunning and domineering, so the villagers secretly called him a bastard. The villagers dared to be angry but dared not speak out. Pu Songling saw this, so he wrote a couplet.
The first couplet: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
The second couplet: filial piety, loyalty, trust, etiquette, justice and integrity.
Hengbiao: the elders of the three dynasties.
The man saw it and liked it very much, so he engraved the couplet on the gate of the merit archway. After careful consideration, someone discovered the clue. It turned out that the first couplet was missing an eight, that is, he had forgotten the eight. Forget the eight, the bastard, the first couplet mocks him as a bastard, the second couplet is polite, righteous, honest and shameless. The lack of one shame shows that he is shameless. This couplet is to call him a veteran of three dynasties, a bastard who is shameless.
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First line: Which of these bastards is the master?
Second line: Poems, books, etiquette, spring and autumn, there are many serious things, so why bother asking Lao Tzu?
The upper couplet shows reeds on the wall, top-heavy and shallow;
The lower couplet shows bamboo shoots in the mountains, with pointed mouths, thick skin and hollow bellies.