Ancient talented woman out of the upper couplet: "cave spring water flow is not exhausted", the talented son of the next couplet, can be called a classic, how to say?

Tang China, a vast history, for thousands of years. In the rolling river of history, we have developed a number of excellent historical and cultural forms, poetry, lyrics, music, fugue; qin, chess, books, paintings, thousands of forms, ten thousand kinds of magnificent. Couplets, also known as couplets, are an extremely interesting and unique form of expression among the countless historical and cultural forms, which is characterized by its most important feature, namely, neatness of comparison and coordination of level and oblique, belonging to the literature of couplets. Even today it is very popular among the public. Every Spring Festival, when families welcome the Spring Festival, they will put up spring couplets on their doors to send the Chinese people's good wishes for warding off evil spirits and attracting good fortune.

The first recorded couplets appeared in the Three Kingdoms period, at least 1,700 years ago, why in the thousands of years of fluctuations in the couplets can still be inherited as the people's favorite form of traditional culture? Couplets first originated from the parallelism and poetry, in the continuous development and absorbed the characteristics of poetry, prose, lyrics and music, with the development of papermaking and calligraphy, and ultimately formed an independent style of writing, popular among the people, and its forms of expression are also varied, the audience is even more widespread, women and children, the old, the rich and the poor, the rich and the poor, is a lack of recreational activities in ancient folk an indispensable form of entertainment.

On the couplets, there are many interesting folk stories, such as the ancient love story of the talented woman to choose a husband. According to legend, in the Northern Song Dynasty, Kaifeng, Henan Province, there is a large family, the family is well off, food and drink, this large family has an only daughter, since childhood, know qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and music, can be described as "temperament as beautiful as the orchid, the talent of the Fuchu than Xian." The only thing is that the woman's talent and appearance are both excellent, so such a talented woman, naturally, by many men's pursuit.

Only if the heart of the swan's talented women, and how to see on the rusty learning, no ink in the chest of the boys, which one after another, the marriage has become a major concern of the big families. As the talented girl grows older, the marriage matter is still not resolved, the boredom of the emotions such as cumulus clouds piled up in the heart.

One day, when the talented woman was mourning herself in the mirror, she suddenly came up with a good idea to compare the match. She wanted to find the man of her dreams who could read poetry and books with her, and who was as full of poetry as she was, and she wanted to find the man of her dreams who could read poetry and books with her. The news of the matchmaking of the talented girl spread like sand through the fingers, and for a while, the talented men in the city who had been well read in poetry were eager to try, wanting to meet the talented girl with literature, and if the talented girl looked at her, not only would she have a good companion, but she would also be able to get a rather generous bride price, and in just a few days, the talented girl's mansion was as if it were a marketplace.

Faced with a large number of talented men who came to run for husbands, the talented woman, as if in a state of relaxation, came up with a couplet "the spring water in the cave does not run out," the meaning of the elegant, to show their talent. After a few days of competition, three gentlemen finally became the finalists by virtue of their talent. All three gentlemen were able to match the couplet given by the talented lady, but the final winner was chosen by the talented lady herself.

The first son's couplet was "The ancient trees of the plains are one zhang of sky", which is a bleak feeling, but unfortunately, it is not in harmony with the meaning of the couplet; the second son's couplet was "The clouds of the mountains are floating on the sea of pines", the clouds of the mountains are very atmospheric, but the momentum is too majestic, and the meaning of the words is too strong, and the meaning of the words is too strong. The momentum is too majestic, the words and meanings of the battle is not neat; the talented woman showed disappointment, looked to the third gentleman, only to see this gentleman temperament like jade, elegant, only to hear him slowly voice to "the mountain breeze to welcome the face." "The spring water in the cave is flowing endlessly, and the fresh wind in the mountains comes to the face." Mountain water, wind and spring, a good picture of elegant poetry, flavorful scroll. The talented girl blushed with shame and finally chose the third male as her preferred husband.

Just as the pair of perfect match, the talented woman and the son after marriage also know each other, know you know me, support each other's family business, together with poetry and poetry, *** read the Western wing. Lived a life like a couple of immortals. And this absolutely beautiful story and this ancient absolute has also been recorded, passed down to this day.

In addition to the talented son and daughter, there is also Wang Anshi and his wife, Ms. Ma, is also due to the pair bonding. Legend has it that 20-year-old Wang Anshi in the road to catch the exams passing through the town of Ma, is to meet the lanterns, the original is the Ma family Miss since childhood read poetry and books, intelligent, and now is the maturity of Miss Ma, in search of a good son-in-law, will be posted on the couplet, if there is a man right, will be married to him as a wife. However, the couplet has been posted for several days, but no one has come up with the next couplet that would satisfy Ms. Ma.

The talented Wang Anshi naturally refused to let go of this opportunity, and took a look at the beautifully written couplet "Walking Horse Lanterns, Lights Walking Horses, Lights Resting Horses Stopping". Seemingly no surprise, but three "horse" three "lights", both the heavy character grid and have a joint pearl grid, to the next line is very difficult, Wang Anshi distressed to the extreme, because he had to rush to the examination, only to give up for the time being the couplet, bye bye to the town.

Wang Anshi finally entered the test will be faced with the examiner personally out of the examination questions, the examiner looked at the test hall in front of the flying tiger flag, a bright idea, out of the "flying tiger flag, flag flying tiger, flag roll tiger hide" this absolute, Wang Anshi heard, overjoyed, and immediately out of the Miss Ma out of the couplets " Walking horse lamp, lamp walking horse, lamp resting horse stopping". The examiner was very satisfied with Wang Anshi's talent and praised him greatly. Wang Anshi was also overjoyed, that Ma's talented daughter is really my virtuous assistant.

After the examination, Wang Anshi did not have time to celebrate the wine, and rushed to the town of Ma, fortunately, no one can still be absolute, Wang Anshi, a wave of the pen, on the next couplet, and that the Ma family Miss happy marriage, with the Miss Ma the help of this virtuous assistants, Wang Anshi, but also the high and smooth career, the fame of a thousand years. Couplets are both simple and complex, elegant and popular **** appreciation, enjoyable, not only can carry the Chinese people in addition to the old and welcome the new wishes, but also as a testimony of love for thousands of years, moistening the four seas, worthy of China's traditional culture heirloom treasures.