The four tragedies in life refer to the loss of father in youth, spouse in middle age, children in old age, and children without good teachers.
Four joys and four joys refer to the four joys and four joys in life, which are derived from the four joys of prodigy poetry.
Tales of Wonders is a collection of poems written by Wang Zhu in Song Dynasty. Later generations compiled "prodigy poems" based on some poems by Wang Zhu and other people's poems. In fact, the prodigy poems handed down from generation to generation are not all the works of young prodigies, nor are they all written by Wang Zhu alone, but have been revised and supplemented by the poems of Sui and Tang Dynasties and even the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
Most titles are added separately. Poetry is a five-character quatrain, with neat meter and easy-to-understand words, which is a model for teenagers to learn poetry.
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Four happy events in life: a long drought meets nectar, an old friend is met in another country, and the wedding ceremony is the first place.
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Wang Zhu's Four Happy Poems of a Prodigy was born in the late Northern Song Dynasty. Wang Zhu began to write poems when he was nine years old, and was known as a "child prodigy". Wang Zhu's poetry is brilliant. He has written many quatrains, all short poems, which are convenient for children to remember. At that time, there were more than 30 five-character quatrains, which were interpreted and compiled into the collection of Wang prodigy poems.
The words and expressions of the poem prodigy are easy to understand and are very suitable for children to recite. It is as famous as San Zi Jing, known as "a wonderful book of ancient and modern times", and has become the main teaching material for cultivating Mongolian children. It has been widely circulated and has a far-reaching influence.
One is from Hong Mai's "Rong Zhai's Essays, Four Writings, Eight Proud and Frustrated Poems" in the Southern Song Dynasty: "After a long drought, I met an old friend and met an old friend in another country; On the wedding night, do it for the first time. "
Four great sorrows
Teenagers lose their parents, middle-aged people lose their spouses, old people lose their only children, and few children have no good teachers.
In Mai's Four Poems of Rong Zhai: Proud and Frustrated, he summed up "the mourning of the widow, the general being captured by the enemy, falling out of favor with the tears of the ladies-in-waiting, and the heart of the son" as four sorrows. Whenever people think about this, they are not only sad, but also unspeakable.
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Baidu encyclopedia-four joys and four sorrows