Wind and rain, reading, hearing.
Family affairs, state affairs and everything in the world care about everything.
This couplet was written by Gu Xiancheng, the leader of Lindong Party in Ming Dynasty ("Talking about the Interest of Honesty" 275). Gu founded Donglin Academy in Wuxi. After giving lectures, he often comments on state affairs. Later, people used it to advocate "saving the country and not forgetting to study", which still has positive significance. The first couplet combines the sound of reading with the sound of wind and rain, which is both poetic and meaningful. The bottom line is the ambition to rule the country and level the world. Wind to rain, home to country, ears to heart. Extremely neat, especially when used with words, such as the sound of books.
(The couplet Conghua Volume 6) There is a couplet in Yongji Temple next to Yanziji in Nanjing (The couplet Conghua Volume 6) Cloud:
Pine sound, bamboo sound, chime and sound are very comfortable.
Mountains, water, smoke clouds, all colors are empty.
And the original couplets of Zhongfangguang Temple in Tiantai Mountain, Zhejiang Province (Su Wenyang's Ancient and Modern Couplets, page 139):
Wind, water, insects, birds and Brahma sounded for 360 days, and the bell was silent.
Moonlight, mountain color, grass color, tree color, cloud color, cloud gas, and the colors of the 48,000-foot mountain peak are all empty.
The above two couplets and the first couplet use the same artistic means. Without the author and age, it is impossible to determine who is innovative and who is imitative. But it can be explained that the same artistic means can express completely different ideological interests.
The Double Ninth Festival is called "Shang".
Eighty kings are fair everywhere.
Jiutianzi is called "Jiutianzi" every year.
This couplet is the New couplet of Wansongling Palace, co-edited by Peng He (from Volume II). The first part is made by Peng, and the second part is made by Peng. In the fifty-fifth year of Qianlong (1790), before the Double Ninth Festival, Qianlong came back from hunting in Mulan paddock in Jehol and stayed at Wansongling Palace. The couplet is a eulogy for the 80th birthday of Qianlong, which is about cutting people (Qianlong), land (Wansongling) and time (Double Ninth Festival). Moreover, it adopts the method of dividing characters (eighteen gongs in Song Dynasty), overlapping characters (everywhere, year after year) and self-respect of inverted characters (eighty, eighteen; 10% off, 10% off) high skill, not a cliche, not a word game, although it is flattering, it can be described as the best couplet.
Don't go home this season.
Where there is a car, there is a fish. Contemporary Meng Wei can invite me.
Qiu won't go home this season until he pays all the money.
This couplet was written by Fang Dishan, the "Lian Sheng". Fang is Yuan Shikai's guest and the teacher of his second son (284). One Spring Festival, he wrote this pair of Spring Festival couplets, saying that my employer was very kind to me and would not go home this Spring Festival. Fang compares his boss to Su Qin. He praised his boss and himself, which is really a masterpiece. When Mr Wang Junshi taught this couplet in the 1940s, he used another version. The next couplet said, "I don't know where the gold came from without clothes.
Structurally, this couplet consists of two three sentences and a seven sentence. It has a strong sense of rhythm, and is represented by binary sequences: 1 10,111/. From 001100, we can see that the three-sentence pattern is repeated once, and the first three digits of the seven-sentence pattern are the most important. Therefore, structurally, the three-sentence pattern is only a partial repetition of the seven-sentence pattern. This is the best structure that we didn't mention above. This couplet is also very particular about the use of allusions. The first story with "Feng Xuan Guest" and the next story with "Su Qin and Lian Heng suing Qin" are all from the Warring States Policy. Reading this couplet is equivalent to revisiting two famous books.
4. The east wall falls to the west wall
I'm afraid I'll catch a glimpse of my family.
The front lane is deep and the back lane is deep, so there is no sound of horses and chariots.
Zhu presented a pair of scholar couplets in Zhangzhou (Volume 1 of Conghua Lian). Zhu is an acting scholar in Song Dynasty, but he is not as sanctimonious as people think. This couplet is very human and humorous. Describe a scholar, although his living conditions are poor, but his family is harmonious and his life is happy; Although no one came to visit him, he could study with peace of mind. The first couplet is a bit exaggerated, but the contrast is strong. This is the earliest rhyme,
It's a pity that there are guests who are drunk and have no sleep.
Long song amused himself with his rough and short songs and sparse poems.
Liang Zhangju also wrote couplets with the above rhyme (Volume XII of Conghua Lian). This couplet is hung in Hua Teng Guanyin Record, which records his life and self-evaluation in Fuzhou after he returned from illness at the age of 58. You don't have to use rhyme in couplets, but it is more in tune when used. Ten years later, he revised this couplet:
It's a shame that the guests came, got drunk and slept with nothing to do.
On learning, politics and poetry, there is no family to talk to and entertain themselves.
This couplet is hung in Pucheng's 68-year-old Caotang (the second volume of the couplet continues). Comparing these two couplets, we can know that Liang Zhangju has also made great efforts in poetry.
New acquaintance, old acquaintance, spring night appointment. How can I find the same color of moonlight lamp today and tomorrow?
Traveling around, the scenery is so beautiful, the situation is that the teahouse and restaurant are all booked.
This link is He Danru (1820-? ) A couplet written for Foshan Spring Festival couplets (Article 54 of Minglian Talk about Music). Wrote the folk happy Lantern Festival scene: colorful, bright and bright, tourists like weaving, what a beautiful spring night!
The use of rhyme strengthens the cheerful and romantic atmosphere.
5. An alcoholic called it sacred grass.
Eight methods of vivid ancient books.
The drunkard said that the holy grass is full of rain and wind, so he needs to drink three cups.
This is a couplet written by Liang Zhangju for Cao Sheng Temple in Changshu, Jiangsu Province (Volume 1 of the Continuation of Couplets). Tang Zhang Xu was the county magistrate of Changshu. He is good at cursive writing and addicted to alcohol. Every time he got drunk, he was called crazy, so he wrote a pen and was called "the sage of grass" by the world. This couplet brings the style of Zhang Xu's books and wine to life. If you see that man, you can see what he said.
How many poets do different generations ask at the same time?
Mr. Wang also has a thatched cottage, where the sky and the earth flow and the moon is white and the wind is clear
This is a couplet written by Gu Fuchu, a poet in Qing Dynasty, for Du Fu Caotang in Chengdu (page 148 of Ancient and Modern Couplets). Du Fu is a "poet saint", and his style is different from that of "grass saint". Caotang is not a temple. From the perspective of the times,
The first couplet laments that there have been several poets' poems for thousands of years. The second couplet says that even such a poet was not proud at that time, but his spiritual wealth was handed down.