Ancient celebrity stories: humorous Feng Menglong

Feng Menglong (1574- 1646, 72 years old), male, Han nationality, a famous playwright and scholar, was born in Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu) in the Ming Dynasty.

1574 was born in Changzhou, Wuxian County, Suzhou Prefecture, South Zhili, and died in 1646. A writer, thinker and dramatist in Ming Dynasty. Words are still dragons, words are still children. Ming Reng Long, owner of Mohanzhai, three ancient songs, slave of Wuxia Ci, slave of Gusu Ci, known as Zhu in the former Zhou Dynasty in history. Han nationality, a native of Changzhou County (now Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province), came from a scholar-bureaucrat family. My brother dreamed of laurel trees and was good at drawing.

Books. Brother Meng Xiong, a big disciple, studied under Feng Menglong's Spring and Autumn Annals, and there are poems handed down from generation to generation. The three brothers are also called "Wuxia Sanfeng".

His works emphasize feeling and behavior. The most famous works are Yu's Famous Words (also known as Ancient and Modern Novels), Shi Jing and Xingyan, which are collectively called Sanyan. Sanyan, together with Ling Mengchu's Surprise in One Moment and Surprise in Two Instances in Ming Dynasty, is a classic representative of China's vernacular short stories. Feng Menglong created, collected, arranged and edited novels, operas, folk songs, jokes and other popular literature, and made a unique contribution to China literature.

One of Feng Menglong's humorous stories.

There was a poor scholar who was about to take the imperial examination, thinking hard day and night, but the article was never finished. The wife saw it and laughed at him: "Look at you, it's so difficult to write an article, just like we women have children." The scholar said, "It's easy for you women to have children!" The wife asked, "Why?" The scholar said, "You have something in your stomach, but my stomach is empty!" " "

Humorous Feng Menglong's Second Story

An enlightenment teacher wanted to teach his students the word "Sichuan" and asked them to bring the book up, but he turned over several pages in a row and didn't see the word "Sichuan". In desperation, he suddenly saw a word "three" and pointed at it and scolded: "I am so bitter, I can't find it anywhere, but you are lying here sleeping in!"

Learning is difficult, and writing articles is even more difficult. Ancient and modern imperial examinations harm people. Inexperienced and irresponsible teachers exist in ancient and modern times, which is really misleading.