What are the four joys and four sorrows of life?

The four great joys of life are: the rain of a long drought, the meeting of an old friend in another country, the night of the wedding, and the time of the title of the gold list.

The four sorrows of life are: the loss of parents in youth, the loss of spouse in middle age, the loss of an only son in old age, and the lack of a good teacher for a young son.

From "Poem of the Prodigy - Four Joys".

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"Poems of a Prodigy - Four Joys" was written by Wang Su (汪洙), whose character Dewen (德温), was a native of the late Northern Song Dynasty. Wang Su wrote poetry when he was nine years old, and was known as a "child prodigy". Wang Su was a talented poet, and he wrote a number of short poems, all of which were easy for children to memorize. A schoolteacher at that time compiled more than thirty poems written by Wang Su into a collection titled "Poems of Wang Prodigy".

The Poems of the Prodigy, with its easy-to-understand text, was very suitable for children to memorize and recite, and it was regarded as "the most wonderful book of the past and the present," along with the Three Character Classic, and it became the main teaching material for children's training, which was widely circulated with far-reaching influence.

According to the Ming Dynasty Zhu Guozhen compiled by the "Chung Block Scholarship" and other books, Chenghua year wuchen years, a person called Wang Shunan in this poem in front of each line to add two words, become: ten years of drought meets the rain, ten thousand miles to meet the old acquaintance. The monk's wedding night, the instructor's golden list.

The poem "Four Happiness" after the change uses a specific number of specific characters to emphasize and highlight the joy of joy, joyful, pushing the meaning of joy to the extreme, and produces a humorous and witty novelty and effect, which makes people tend to be unable to stop laughing and clapping their hands after reading it.

The Four Joys of Empty Joy

A long drought meets a sweet dew - a drop, and a debtor meets a friend in another land.

The Night of the Cave Flower Candle - in a dream, the time of the Golden List - a renaming

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