Interesting couplets

Pawnshop, west pawnshop, east-west pawnshop is east-west;

South Tongzhou, north Tongzhou, north-south Tongzhou is north-south.

I'll give you the first line, you give me the second, it doesn't matter if it's right or wrong

Brother sings the first line, brother sings the second, the tune has a dry ending

Shanghai tap water comes from the sea.

Huangshan larch leaves are yellow.

The children play with the tung, the tung falls, the children are happy.

The girl is eating duck head, the duck head is salty, the girl is disgusted.

The sky is the chessboard, the stars are the seeds, who dares to play.

The earth is a lute, which can be played.

Su Shi and Fo Yin's joke--Su Shi saw a dog gnawing on a bone by the river, so he said:

The dog gnawed on the bone of a monk on the river;

Fo Yin threw the fan with Su Shi's poems to the river calmly, and said:

Water flowed to Dong Po's poems (corpses).

2The sky is the chessboard and the stars are the seeds, who dares to play?

The earth is the lute, the road is the string, who can play?

3 Xie Jin was poor when he was a child, home to the landlord of a bamboo forest, so he made a couplet;

The door to a thousand poles of bamboo, the family hides ten thousand volumes of books.

The landlord was not happy, cut the bamboo short, and Xie Jin changed it to:

The door to a thousand bamboo short, the family hides ten thousand volumes of books long.

The landlord was even more upset, and cut all the bamboos, and Xie Jin changed it to:

The door to the thousands of short bamboo, the family has ten thousand volumes of books long.

4 Xie Jin in the emperor's side as a reader, want to go home to visit their families and do not dare to say, the emperor saw, to him on his joint leave:

Ten mouths of thoughts, thinking of his wife, thinking of his son, thinking of his parents;

Xie Jin leisurely to:

Speaking of the body inches of thanks, thank you, thank you God, thank you, the king.

5 Maitreya Buddha's couplet:

The belly can tolerate, tolerate the world's intolerable things;

Open your mouth to laugh, know the world laughable people

6 Su Shi's younger sister, Su Xiaomei, is also quite talented. One day, Fo Yin went to visit Su Shi, coincidentally bumped into Su Xiaomei in the bed tent laziness did not get up, so he made fun of:

The smoke cage peony.

Su remembered the day she saw him washing his hair by the river and laughed:

The water floats on the gourd.

7The hungry chickens steal the rice and the children beat them up; the rats and mice are in the summer and the guests are coughing.

The meaning is that a hungry chicken steals rice and is beaten by a child with a bamboo tube; a mouse is cooled on a beam and is frightened away by a guest's cough. The best thing about the word is that it is a homophonic word.

8 Wang Xizhi's words are too good, New Year's Eve outside the door to post couplets, wrote N couplets were stolen.

This is the first time that I've written a couplet:

Blessed is not the same, not the same thing.

No one dares to steal it because it's so unlucky.

But when it was almost midnight, he asked his son to add three words to the end of it, and it became a wonderful couplet:

Fortune comes today, and misfortune came last night.

9Liu Ling drinks up all the wine without leaving a trace; Jia Dao is drunk but not fake.

10 Xiu Cai went to Beijing to catch the examination, the allowance is exhausted, the shopkeeper wants him to the couplet can be free, see the Xiu Cai ate rice noodles, out:

Eight knives divided into rice noodles

Xiu Cai:

Thousands of miles of heavy (in the) gold clock. (Zhong Jin Zhong means "on the list"). Chung is the ancient form of bell.

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The boy hits the tung, the tung falls, the boy is happy

The girl eats the duck's head, the duck's head is salty, the girl dislikes

Busy with fame, busy with profit, busy with leisure, and drinking a cup of tea

Laboring hard, laboring hard, and enjoying hard work, and then getting a jug of wine

Not a classic, not a classic, not a classic, not a classic, not an article, but an article, not a sentence

Half-true, half-false, and a moon in the water, in a mirror, in the sky

The crossword is. Fo Yin threw the fan with Su Shi's poem on it to the river and said:

The water is flowing with Dong Po's poem (corpse).

2The sky is the chessboard and the stars are the seeds, who dares to play?

The earth is the lute, the road is the string, who can play?

3 Xie Jin was poor when he was a child, home to the landlord of a bamboo forest, so he made a couplet;

The door to a thousand poles of bamboo, the family hides ten thousand volumes of books.

The landlord was not happy, cut the bamboo short, and Xie Jin changed it to:

The door to a thousand bamboo short, the family hides ten thousand volumes of books long.

The landlord was even more upset, and cut all the bamboos, and Xie Jin changed it to:

The door to the thousands of short bamboo, the family has ten thousand volumes of books long.

4 Xie Jin in the emperor's side as a reader, want to go home to visit their families and do not dare to say, the emperor saw, to him on his joint leave:

Ten mouths of thoughts, thinking of his wife, thinking of his son, thinking of his parents;

Xie Jin leisurely to:

Speaking of the body inches of thanks, thank you, thank you God, thank you, the king.

5 Maitreya Buddha's couplet:

The belly can tolerate, tolerate the world's intolerable things;

open mouth to laugh, know the world of ridiculous people.

6 Su Shi's sister Su Xiaomei is also quite talented. One day, Fo Yin went to visit Su Shi, coincidentally bumped into Su Xiaomei in the bed tent laziness did not get up, so he made fun of:

Smoke in the peony.

Su remembered the day she saw him washing his hair by the river and laughed:

The water floats on the gourd.

7The hungry chickens steal the rice and the children beat them up; the rats and mice are in the summer and the guests are coughing.

The meaning is that a hungry chicken steals rice and is beaten by a child with a bamboo tube; a mouse is cooled on a beam and is frightened away by a guest's cough. The best thing about the word is that it is a homophonic word.

8 Wang Xizhi's words are too good, New Year's Eve outside the door to post couplets, wrote N couplets were stolen.

This is the first time I've ever seen a pair of couplets in my life.

No one dares to steal it because it's so unlucky.

But when it was almost midnight, he asked his son to add three words to the end of it, and it became a wonderful couplet:

Fortune comes today, and misfortune came last night.

9Liu Ling drinks up all the wine without leaving a trace; Jia Dao is drunk but not fake.

10 Xiu Cai went to Beijing to catch the examination, the allowance is exhausted, the shopkeeper wants him to the couplet can be free, see the Xiu Cai ate rice noodles, out:

Eight knives divided into rice noodles

Xiu Cai:

Thousands of miles of heavy (in the) gold clock. (Zhong Jin Zhong means "on the list"). Chung is the ancient form of bell.

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Interesting couplets

Once upon a time, there was a "lonely ghost" who wanted to open a hotel, so he offered three taels of silver to write a couplet for the new store.

There was a scholar who applied for the job. "He told him, "The couplet should praise my wine, vinegar, pigs, and people, and there are no rats in the store."

The scholar wrote it out quickly--

The first couplet was: "The pigs are as big as mountains, and the rats are only dead", and the second couplet was: "The wine is good, the vinegar is good, and the vinegar is sour", and the second couplet was: "The people are sick and have little wealth"

The scholar read the couplet out with a shake of the head, and the ghost was very happy to hear it. Just like this, the three taels of silver also rogue, not to give the showman.

On the day of the opening of the new store, in front of many people who came to watch, Xiu Cai read the couplet aloud as:

"People are more sick and less wealthy."

"Raise pigs as big as mountain rats, only to die."

"Brewing tanks of good vinegar, altar sour."

"Lonely ghost" heard, cursed the showman, but the people watching the audience laughed.

Please guess why the original "lonely ghost" was so happy to hear this?

Answer: Because Xiu Cai read:

"There are many people, fewer illnesses, and more wealth."

"The pigs are as big as mountains, and the rats are only dead."

"Brewing wine is good in a jar, making vinegar is sour in an altar."

Interesting couplets

Boat loaded with stones stone heavy boat gently loaded with heavy

Ruler measure ground ground long ruler short short measure long body light load heavy light pick heavy

Foot short road long short walk long

Boat leak leak full pot leak dry

Lamp blow blow extinguish the fire blow burn drunkenness of wine guests restaurant drunkenness

People pleasing to paint good poetry

Egg without salt

The pig's intestines have not been cut yet, so the deer sleeps alone in the north of the house

The chickens in the west of the stream all crow

The jade head rises up, the taro head withers, and the jade head cries

The monk swims on the river, and the monk is sad, and the silhouette of a man standing alone on a small bridge doesn't flow down the river

The soul of the lonely sleeper in the hotel used to chase the ghost of his hometown

Who has ever broken the tower with one blow

I have also ventured on the top.

The silkworm makes a cocoon and draws silk from it, and weaves silk and silk to warm the world

The wolf has a pen and a brush, and he writes beautiful articles to spread all over the world

The red face of Guan, the black face of Zhang, the white face of Long, the white face, all of them protect Mr. Liu

The treacherous heart of Cao, the ambition of Yu, and the sinister heart of Dong Zhuo, all of them are interested in seizing Han's kingdom

The tall and the short, and the short, and the short, and the short, and the short stick to drive the black man to plow a small field. Fragrance

The first line: one, three, eight pronounced (bar), adjusted (tune), the rest pronounced (drop), tone of the (tune).

Next couplet: one, three, eight reads the sound (去音), of planting (种), the rest reads the sound (上音), of variety, of kind (种).

The next line reads: long long rise, long rise long fade.

Line by line

Long long long long long

The upper line reads: Hang Hang Hang Hang Hang Hang.

The next line reads: long up long up long up long up.

The pronunciation of the next couplet: Zhaoshao, Zhaoshao, Zhaoshao.

The reading of the next couplet: long water rises, long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long long flow.

The next line reads: Floating clouds rise, long long rise, long rise and long fade.

Wine is hot, no soup is needed

The hall is not used to fan the car fan

The "soup" after the first couplet reads "hot"

The "fan" after the second couplet reads "fan"

The great calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Xizhi, liked to write the couplets on the door, but every time he just posted them, they were stolen by other people. In the morning of the first day, Wang Xizhi added three more words to the end of each of the couplets, resulting in a masterpiece of meaning:

Fortune arrives this day

Trouble travels last night

The "skill" of the legend is obviously not credible - because it was not until the Five Dynasties that the "skill" of the legend came into being. -Because the first spring couplets didn't appear until the Five Dynasties. But the story is interesting, and the couplets are not without artistic merit.

2.

Wang Yucheng (王禹偁), a writer of the Northern Song Dynasty, was poor when he was a child, and used to help the adults to grind flour after school. 12 years old, he was ordered by a master to make a couplet based on the theme of grinding flour, and Wang Yucheng said:

But the right thing is in his heart

Without worrying about being late in the eyes

When the local governor hosted a banquet, he made an immediate appeal for a pair of couplets:

Parrots are hard to talk to, like a phoenix

The guest list was full of guests.

The next sentence is:

The spider is not as skillful as the silkworm

3.

Lu Mengzheng, a Song man, was indignant at the serious inequality between the rich and the poor at that time. One Spring Festival, a poor man asked him to write a couplet, Lu wrote:

2, 3, 4, 5

6, 7, 8, 9

Crossword: North and South

The couplet was posted and attracted countless people to watch. The crowd first found it "strange" and then called it "wonderful". This pair of spring couplets is wonderful in its "outside the meaning of the association": the first line is missing "one", the second line is less "ten", it is the "lack of clothing and food! The first line lacks "one", and the second line lacks "ten", which is the harmony of "lack of clothes and food": the crossword "north and south" also means "nothing". The author's unique rhetorical device writes about the survival of the poor people's dilemma.

4.

Yan Shu, a Song Dynasty poet, took a rest at the Daming Temple when he was passing through Yangzhou, and inadvertently saw a poem written on the wall that was very good, and after inquiring about the author of the poem, Wang Qi, who was a local man, he asked Wang to join him for a meal. After the meal, the two of them took a walk by the pool, which was at the end of the spring when red flowers were falling everywhere, and Yanshu said, "Sometimes I think of a good line, for example, I have made such a line: 'There is nothing I can do to help the flowers fall away', and so far I haven't thought of the next couplet." Wang Qi responded, "Déjà vu, the return of the swallow." Soon after, this line was written by Yan Shu in his poem "Raccoon River Sand? A Cup of Wine for a New Lyric", which became a famous phrase in the ancient times.

5.

Kou Zhun, a famous prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, traveled with his friends to the countryside, and asked for the right answer:

The moon under the water is the moon in the sky

The friends did not have any answer, and Yang Dainian just arrived, and said:

The person in his eyes is the person in front of him

The friends applauded in unison.

6,

Song Liu Gong father good genus, Wang Anshi out of the sentence to try:

Three generations of Xia, Shang and Zhou

Liu said:

Four poems of elegance

Wang Anshi clapped his hands and shouted: "This is a match made in heaven!" The beauty of the couplet is that it summarizes "Ode to Wind and Elegance" with "Four Poems": because the "Elegant" poems in the Classic of Poetry can be divided into "Great Elegance "and "Little Elegance", which together with "Wind" and "Ode" become "Four Poems "

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7.

Mei Yaochen was famous for his poems, but he was not reappointed for thirty years. In his later years, he was invited by Ouyang Xiu to participate in the compilation of the Book of Tang. After the completion of the manuscript, Mei died before it could be submitted to the emperor, and the scholars lamented the death of Mei. Previously, when Mei Yaochen was appointed to repair the Book of Tang, he said to his wife Diao:

My book repair, can also be called a monkey into the bag

Diao laughed:

Jun in the bureaucracy, and how different from the catfish on the bamboo pole

The couple's daily conversation, but the natural couplet, heard that the good to the right.

8,

Su Shi (No. Dongpo) and Huang Tingjian in the pine chess, gusts of wind blowing, the pine fell off the board, Dongpo instantly scenic line:

Pine under the chess, the pine fell with the chess pieces

Huang Tingjian said:

Willow fishing, willow often accompanied by the fishing line hanging

9,

Su Shi has always been a proud of his talent, the prime minister Wang Anshi was very important to Su Shi. Wang Anshi valued Su's talent, but also feel that the kill his arrogance, one year of the first month and December have spring, August is a leap month, Wang Anshi that this is the subject of a couplet to be answered by Su Shi:

One year of the two spring and two August, the earth's two degrees of spring and autumn

Su Shi thought hard for many days, and ultimately can not be right out of it. Until a few hundred years later there was an unnamed man who reluctantly came up with the next couplet (wide right):

Sixty years old and then Zhou Tian, the world reunited with the A Zi

10,

One day, Su Dongpo invited Huang Tingjian to his home as a guest. Huang to the door, Su busy to go out to meet, the two men in the willow tree next to the door to climb up. Are catching lice in front of the window of the Su little sister to see this scene, that is, the play said:

A brother outside the door to invite the double moon

Su Dongpo laughed and said:

Smaller sister in front of the window to catch the half-wind

Press: "double moon" is called "peng", "half-wind", "half-wind", "half-wind", "half-wind", "half-wind", "half-wind", "half-wind" and "half-wind". "

By the way, I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get a good look at this, but I'm sure I'm going to be able to get a good look at this.

11.

One evening, Su Dongpo said to Su Xiaomei, "I'll give you a couplet, and ask you to spend a night's work on the next one."

The Water Fairy is holding a jasper hairpin, blowing it out in front of the wind

Su Xiaomei could not come up with the answer after a long time of hard thinking. Because "Water Fairy", "Jasper Hairpin" and "slow sound" are all the names of words, the next line must also be the name of the word for the right, but also to depict a scene, the difficulty is indeed very great. Is searching for the time, suddenly saw the maid in the moonlight to bring food and wine, Su Xiaomei inspired the next couplet:

Yu Mei Ren wear red embroidered shoes, the moon attracted step by step Step by step Step

According to: "Yu Mei Ren", "red embroidered shoes", "Step by Step" are also the names of the words.

12,

Su Dongpo often went out to enjoy the mountains during his tenure in Hangzhou. One day, he traveled in civilian clothes to Moqianshan when he came to the temple to rest, the temple old Taoist saw him dressed in simple clothes, it is regarded as an ordinary traveler, the attitude of indifference, said: "Sit down!" And shouted to the Taoist boy: "Tea!" In the middle of the conversation, the Taoist realized that the visitor was quite knowledgeable, so he invited him into the compartment to talk, and said, "Please sit!" And he called out to the Taoist boy, "Tea!" When he finally learned that the guest was Su Dongpo, the old Taoist priest bowed and invited him to the living room to "sit down!" The old Taoist bowed and asked him to go to the living room, "Sit down! When he entered the living room, the Taoist bowed and said, "Please sit down!" He also instructed the Taoist boy, "Serve fragrant tea!" At the end of the day, the Taoist asked Dong Po to leave his "calligraphy".

Sit, please sit, please sit

Tea, tea, fragrant tea

The old Taoist was ashamed to read it.

13,

Fo Yin, a monk at Jinshan Temple, and Su Dongpo have always been friendly, and the two met and often joked with each other. One evening, the two canoeing on the Yangtze River, the boat is small and windy, drinking to the moon, very enjoyable, after three rounds of wine, Fo Yin to Dong Po to ask for a sentence, Dong Po finger bank, laugh and do not say. Fo Yin counted to go, but see a farmer on the shore of the hoe back to the village, behind a yellow dog is walking and gnawing on a leftover bone. Fo Yin realized the meaning of Dong Po, is a laugh, will hold in their hands a large fan inscribed with the poems of Dong Po thrown into the water. Two people with each other, look at each other and smile. It turned out that the two of them used the "language of form" to make a pair of exquisite and witty puns "dumb couplets":

Dogs gnawing on the river (monks) bone (Dongpo's line)

Water flow Dongpo poem (corpse) (Foyin's couplet)

14,

One day,

Dong Po's poem was thrown into the water, and the two of them were in a state of shock.

One day, Fo Yin to Dong Po talked about Buddhism, lying behind the curtain Su Xiaomei see Fo Yin to the Buddhist teachings of God, they want to "ghost" the monk a "silent", so the question of a couplet and instructed the maid to take it out and give it to Su Dong Po.

People have been monks, people can not become Buddha

Dongpo handed over the couplet to Fo Yin, Fo Yin thought for a moment, that is, the next couplet:

Women are inferior to the maidservant, the woman can be called a slave

This is a pair of "analyze the character of the couplet", the right is very skillful.

15.

According to legend, Liang Hao (一作灏), a Song man, failed to pass the exams repeatedly, but still did not give up his anger and studied hard, and finally won the first prize at the age of 82. In a thank-you note to the emperor, Liang Hao attached a very humorous couplet:

White head and poor scriptures, less Fusheng eight years old

Green clouds to get the road, more than two years of Taigong

This couplet uses two historical allusions: the Han Dynasty, who taught the "Shangshu", Fusheng was 90 years old when he became famous, and Jiang Shang (Taigong), who assisted the king of the Zhou dynasty, was exactly eighty years old. The author uses this to express his mood of old age and ambition, which is very apt.

16.

Hong Pingzhai, a Song man, liked to use the word "just" in his writings. One year, he wrote to the emperor to impeach the chancellor of the current power bribery, the chapter has this sentence: "recruiting power bribery, rely on the power of the power only", the result is not only failed to "bring down" the chancellor, but also by the chancellor of the jealousy, the whole idle for ten years. Hong Pingzhai was so indignant that he wrote a couplet on the door of his house:

Not getting a word of "之乎"

只因 "而已 "十年闲

17、

You Jang, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, was on friendly terms with Yang Wanli. During the Chunxi years, Yang served as secretary, You for the Secretary, often head down to see. The two were witty and liked to joke with each other. Once when they met, You said to Yang: I will use a sutra sentence as the first line and ask you to make the second line

Yang's for me

Yang Wanli answered:

Yang's for me

You's for me

"Yang's for me" and "You're for me" are both idiomatic expressions in the pre-Qin classics. Both of them are the classic lines of the pre-Qin Dynasty, and the two poets have skillfully introduced them into a joint sentence, while "You" and "Yang" are the surnames of the two of them respectively. This is a great way to get the most out of your life, and it is a great way to get the most out of your life.

18,

The legend has it that Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of Ming Dynasty, visited the Horse Garden, and Zhu Di (his fourth son) and Zhu Yunbao (his eldest grandson) served with him. The emperor made a sentence to:

Wind blowing the horse's tail a thousand lines

Ju Yun-braised said:

Rain sprinkled wool a piece of felt

The emperor thought that "the gas is weak". Zhu Di said:

The sun shines on the dragon's scales of ten thousand points of gold

The latter pair of sentences is much more majestic than the former pair. Later, Zhu Di replaced Zhu Yun-buai on the throne and moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing. Perhaps the "Horse Garden" incident has shown that the grandson is no match for the son.

19,

Ming man Xu Xi was young to the official into the body. He returned to his hometown, the local officials rate of students to welcome, students to its not by subject origin, there are some disrespectful attitude, the local officials were angry, out of the sentence reprimanded the students said:

Breaking pomegranate, the red door in many acid

"Acid" is a sneer at the presence of the acid catechism. The students could not answer. Xu Xi replied:

Bite open the ginkgo, white in an adult

The students were shocked at the service, and then asked for forgiveness

20,

The Ming Dynasty, Gao Zecheng, less than the talent, has a "child prodigy" of the reputation of the day, seven years old, Gao Zecheng dressed in green robes from the school to return home, and met with the official Shangshu's neighbor, Shangshu teased Zecheng. Neighbor, Shangshu play then Cheng said:

Water out of the frogs wearing green jacket, beautiful eyes look forward to

Then Cheng saw Shangshu wearing a red robe, that is, the answer said:

Fall soup is the son of the red robe, bow as also

Shangshu heard, and marveled at "the future generation can be feared". The phrases "beautiful eyes look forward to" and "bowing as if also" are idioms from the Classic of Poetry and the Analects of Confucius respectively, and to be able to quote them so quickly in an immediate response is indeed a matter of learning and talent.

21.

Yu Qian, a famous minister of the Ming Dynasty, was very intelligent when he was young. A monk saw Yu Qian head combed two buns, that is, out of the sentence play:

Niu head happy to have dragon horns

Smaller than the Qian responded:

Dog mouth ever spit ivory

After the age of a little bit older, Yu Qian head combed triple buns, that the monk saw, and then out of the above phase of the play:

Triangle such as drums

Yu Qian retaliated:

One bald as the

22,

Ming Xie Jin was good at couplets when he was young. When he was nine years old, his father took him to the Yangtze River to bathe, father and son took off their clothes and hung them on an old tree by the river. The father said:

The thousand-year-old tree as a hanger

Xie Jin then said:

Ten thousand miles of the Yangtze River as a bathtub

23,

One day, Xie Jin's father and a friend of the game, before the game, the friend chanted:

The sky as a chessboard star as a child, who dares to play

Xie's father was lost in thought for a moment, and stood by the side of the Xie Jin answered the voice of his father:

The ground for the pipa road for the strings, which can play

24,

Xie Jin lived in the village in front of a bamboo mountain, belonging to the same village of the village gentry owned. One year during the Spring Festival, Xie Jin posted a couplet on the door:

Door to a thousand bamboo

Home collection of ten thousand books

Squire saw the heart of the boss was not happy, and was ordered to cut all the tips of the bamboo. Jinyi knew the squire's intention, so he added one word at the end of the couplet:

Door to a thousand bamboo short

Household collection of ten thousand scrolls long

The squire was even more angry, and then ordered the servants to dig up the bamboo by the roots, and Jinyi heard about it, and then added one word at the end of the couplet:

Door to a thousand bamboo short

Household collection of ten thousand scrolls long

The squire did not have the "way out", and then ordered the servants to chop down all of them. "way out", so he had to sulk to himself. That's a good answer, isn't it.