The four tragedies in life refer to: the loss of father in youth, the loss of spouse in middle age, the loss of children in old age and the lack of good teachers.
It's from Four Pleasures of Wonder Poetry.
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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, which has been widely circulated and has a far-reaching influence.
According to Zhu Guozhen's "Architectural Essays in Ming Dynasty" and other books, there was a man named Wang Shunan during Chenghua years, and two words were added before each sentence, which became: Ten years of drought, Wan Li met an old friend in another country. On the wedding night of monks, instructors should be the first.
The revised poem "Four Happiness" emphasizes the happiness and joy of a certain number of characters, pushes the meaning of happiness to the extreme, produces humorous new ideas and effects, and makes people clap their hands with laughter.
Empty and joyful "four joys"
A long drought meets dew-a drop, an old friend from other places-a creditor.
Wedding night-dream, being the first time-same name
Baidu encyclopedia-four joys and four sorrows