1: The story of Li Qingzhao and his wife "betting on books and spilling tea"
The interesting life of Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng, gambling on books and spilling tea. After tea and dinner, the two people found a book, opened a page, and asked each other what book, sentence or even page something something came from. The loser poured tea directly on his chest. The fragrance of tea accompanied by intimacy, Elegant but not vulgar. (Li Qingzhao, in her article "Afterword to "Inscriptions on Metal and Stone") recounted the scene of book gambling with her husband when she lived in the countryside after her marriage. The article said: "I remember that after every meal, I would sit in the Return Hall and cook tea, referring to the accumulation of books. In history, when someone says that something is in a certain book, a certain volume, a certain page, and a certain line, the winner is determined by whether he or she is drinking tea. He raised his cup and laughed until the tea fell into his arms, but he was not allowed to drink it. And rise. I am willing to stay in my hometown forever!")
Nalan Rongruo once used this phrase in "Huanxi Sha"
Huanxi Sha
Na Lan Xingde
Who thinks of the west wind and the coolness alone, the rustling yellow leaves behind closed windows, meditating on the past and setting the setting sun.
Don’t be frightened by the wine and fall into a deep sleep. Gambling on books will make the fragrance of tea disappear. At that time, I just thought it was ordinary.
Note: Her husband is an epigrapher.
2: The story of Ji Xiaolan’s birthday couplet
Wang Hanlin of the Qianlong Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty celebrated his mother’s birthday and asked Ji Xiaolan to make an impromptu birthday greeting to cheer up. Lao Ji didn't refuse, and blurted out in front of a room full of guests: "This woman is not a human being." Upon hearing this, the old lady's face changed drastically, and Wang Hanlin was very embarrassed. Lao Ji calmly read out the second sentence: "Nine Heaven Fairies descend to the mortal world." The whole audience immediately became animated and praised each other, and the old lady also turned from anger to joy. Lao Ji then read the third sentence aloud: "Give a son to be a thief." All the guests became mute, and their joy turned into embarrassment. Lao Ji shouted the fourth sentence: "Steal the fairy peach and give it to my mother." Everyone cheered immediately.
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Zhang Xian (990-1078, courtesy name Ziye), a famous poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, married an 18-year-old concubine when he was 80 years old. At that time, Su Shi, who often sang poems with Mr. Zhang, went to visit him with many friends and asked the old man how he felt about getting such a beautiful wife. The humorous Su Dongpo immediately sang the poem "Eighteen-year-old bride with pale hair and red makeup". At night, a pear tree blooms on top of a begonia tree.
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The life of an old man and a young couple is definitely not harmonious. There was an old prime minister in his seventies who remarried a young lady in her twenties. It was difficult to satisfy the young wife with her life. The young lady couldn't bear the loneliness and secretly hooked up with a book boy.
One Mid-Autumn Festival night, the old prime minister went home and heard a burst of laughter from men and women in the house. He hid under the window and listened. "You look like dough!" "You look like dough." "Are you an old master?" "Like a withered old onion!" The prime minister became more and more angry as he listened, and he endured it again and again. Went to sleep in another room.
The next day, the prime minister served moon cakes and fruits, called the young lady and the book boy, and asked them to recite poems and write poems. The prime minister first chanted: "On August 15th, due east, I suddenly heard the sound of sweet laughter in the house. The dough was accompanied by the music of dough balls, and the old onions were lit outside." When the young lady heard that the prime minister knew about it, she was not afraid, and simply said He composed a song: "On August 15th, due west, I divorced my young wife. Although we are together alive, she is still someone else's after death." Seeing that the secret was exposed, the book boy couldn't help but feel a little frightened. He hurriedly apologized to his master and also chanted A poem: "August and fifteenth are full, and the prime minister's belly can hold a boat. If you don't blame the villain, you will never do it again from now on."
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Chen Jichang, a scholar in the Song Dynasty, was a little afraid of his wife. In order to ridicule this henpecked man who called himself "Longqiu layman", his friend Su Dongpo wrote an interesting poem: Longqiu layman is also pitiful, and he stays up all night talking about empty talk. Suddenly I heard the roar of a lion from the east of the river, and I dropped my stick and felt confused. The poem uses humorous and exaggerated techniques to describe Chen Jichang's fear of his wife so vividly that it makes people laugh. Calling the fierce wife the "Hedong Lion" is also the first of its kind. Since then, "Hedong Lion" has become synonymous with "evil wife".
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Ouyang Xun, a calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, was not good-looking, and his uncle Changsun Wuji looked a little short and fat. One day, the two of them wrote poems to laugh at each other. Changsun satirized Ouyang's poem and said: The arms are hunched up like a mountain, and the shoulders are buried in fear of standing out. Whose family's lin is on the corner and draws a monkey like this. This poem exaggerates Ouyang Xun's shortcomings to the extreme. Ouyang Xun didn't show any weakness, and immediately wrote a poem to return it: The rope head is warm all over the back, and the crotch is covered with fear of the cold in the belly. Just because the heart is muddy, the dough is lumpy. The poem was both graphic and mean, making the eldest grandson dumbfounded. The two men's satirical poems were passed down as a joke by the officials. When the news reached the ears of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, he laughed endlessly. And he humorously said to Ouyang Xun: "Don't let the queen know about your poem. She will be unhappy if she knows about it!" Because Changsun Wuji is the elder brother of Queen Changsun. Li Shimin knew very well that his wife, the eldest grandson Queen, was a virtuous queen and would not get angry over such trivial matters, so he took the opportunity to deliberately silence her.
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It is said that Han Fu's canal is thick, but in fact, his roughness is more humorous. For example, he wrote about Daming Lake: "Daming Lake, Minghu Lake is big, there are toads in Daming Lake, croaking, croaking, croaking Gugugua. "Write about Baotu Spring: "Baotu Spring, spring Baotu, three springs are as big as each other, gurgling, gurgling, gurgling." The most classic one is: "The pot is always boiling in Baotu Spring, but it cannot be steamed. Momo.
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The warlord Zhang Zongchang has the lowest level of education, but he can also write poems, which are full of humor. For example, his "Laughing at Liu Bang" writes: "I heard that Xiang Yu was so powerful that he was so frightened that Liu Bang ran away. It’s not my little Zhang Liang, my grandma has already returned to Pei County. He visited Mount Tai and wrote: "From a distance, Mount Tai looks dark, thin at the top and thick at the bottom." It's like turning Mount Tai upside down. The lower part is thinner and the upper part is thicker. "He wrote in the poem "Lightning in the Sky": "Suddenly I saw a chain of fire in the sky, as if the Jade Emperor was about to smoke. If the Jade Emperor doesn't smoke, why is he a chain of fire again? "This is the humor of rough people, this is the humor of low-level people. I'm afraid this humor is inaccessible to ordinary people!
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During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a squire somewhere in the south of the Yangtze River. He had a wife and a concubine. The three of them lived in one room at night. There was a small room outside the tent that was the maid's bedroom. One night, the squire suddenly became interested in poetry and ordered his wife, The concubines each recited a seven-character poem, and the wife said: "Two boats are supported by a pole," and the concubines immediately said: "If one boat cannot be supported, they will fight." At this time, the squire suddenly heard the maid sighing outside the tent, because He asked, "Why is the maid sighing? When the maid asked the question, she hurriedly recited a sentence from a Tang poem and answered: "There is no one crossing the wild boat." By now, the four of them had each recited a sentence and combined it into a poem, saying: "Two boats are supported by one pole, and one boat is not supported." Then they fight. Why is the maid sighing? There is no boat in Yedu. "It makes people laugh endlessly.
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There was a talented girl. On the eve of her wedding, the groom asked for a poem and the girl recited it. The groom kept asking for it, but the girl had no choice but to ponder for a while. He said, "I'm in a hurry, so I'll borrow two rows of Tang poems. The flower path has never been swept by visitors, and the gate has just opened for you. The groom laughed when he heard it, and then he embraced the bride into the tent."