What are the funny limericks in history?

History Funny limerick has been chewed over and over again, no new ideas, Nangong Xunhuan as today's literary world limerick creator, casually read out so a few, I think it can also stir the limerick jianghu wind and clouds. The first time I saw this, it was a very good idea for me to go back to the old days, when I was a kid and I had to go back to the old days.

Do you believe it? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and you'll be able to do that!

1

Middle age Ⅰ

People in middle age have no choice,

Thermos cups with wolfberry.

The skin is thick and greasy,

and you can eat five buckets of rice a meal.

2

Middle-aged II

Jujubes and goji berries in a thermos cup,

Generals belly hide the remaining power.

3

Square Dance

The most important thing to remember is that you have to be able to dance in the square, and you can do it in the square.

The most important thing to remember is that you can't just dance in the middle of the night, you can't just dance in the middle of the night.

4

And stand

What's the use of being born with talent?

The workplace is too heavy to carry bricks.

I'm not sure I can do anything about it.

I've been dreaming about it for 30 years.

5

Comparison

If you want to compare yourself to the sky,

you have to set a small goal first.

For example, to earn it a hundred million,

moving mouth light.

6

Jianghu

Heroes don't ask for a way out,

Hooligans don't look at the age.

Since you're in the jungle,

you have to be a man of honor.

7

A good man

Drinks and eats meat to be a good man,

beer can drink a bottle and a half.

I've been laughed at for being shallow,

but I've been laughed at for being slow.

8

Favorite

I've opened my window to listen to the birds,

and I've closed my door to read the forbidden books.

The most important thing is to have a pillow to hold a beautiful woman,

and once you sleep, you will be like a dead pig.

Nangong Xunhuan said: elegant poetry, let a person read obscure; interesting limerick one, let a person read after enjoying.

Don't take the beanbag not dry food, don't take the village head not cadres, don't take the limerick not poetry, don't take the Nangong Xuanhuan as a cultural person.

The oil poem than compared to the poems and stanzas, there are not so many rules and regulations of the format specification, less bound, more convenient to play. Because of this, if a limerick is to survive, it should have more substance and value than normal poetry.

Nangong Xuanhuan is a single person, dancing, writing poetry for fun, so that the lonely not lonely, so lonely not sad, so sad not painful, so painful not tear lungs.

Life, nothing more than being laughed at by others, and then laugh at others, there is no threshold that can not be crossed.

Unhappy, read a few limericks, a kind of self-deprecation, but also to laugh at all the less-than-ideal.

May every poetic us be treated gently by this cockamamie life.

Some people will seemingly modestly call their poems limericks. In fact, there are poems now that are nothing compared to limericks. I really don't know whether comparing one's poem to a limerick is considered humility or pride.

On the one hand, the limerick does not speak of meter, does not speak of the battle, does not speak of the word gorgeous, does not speak of the realm of elegance, not the hall of fame. On the other hand, the limerick is sincere, descriptive, witty, vivid, catchy, easy to read and remember, and popular among the people. The limerick is a beautiful flower in the garden of Chinese culture, especially in the garden of poetry.

The person who pioneered the style of limerick poetry is Zhang, whose occupation is limerick, and whose name and place of origin are unknown. Near his home there is a high platform, often poets climbed to see the distance, big chant and special chanting their poems. One winter when it snowed heavily, the poets did not come out, so the townspeople encouraged Zhang to climb up to the high platform to recite their poems. Not only did Zhang Taoliu climb up to the stage to recite his poems, but his poems also spread and were widely circulated. Later, people called Zhang Taoliu's poems "Taoliu Poetry".

The content of the poem is: a generalization of the mountains and rivers, a black hole in the well, a yellow dog with a white body, a white dog with a swollen body. The general meaning of the poem is that the world is all white, and it is hard to tell where the rivers and mountains are. There was a well in the distance, so you could see the black hole in the well. When snow falls on a yellow dog, it looks like a white dog. White dog with snow falling on it, like a swollen general. The feeling is very vivid, worthy of the founding father of the oil pumping gang.

There is also a version is that there is an official saw a poem, the content is: snowflakes on the ground, a foot or two inches high, wait until the sky is clear: make the broom to make the broom, make the spade to make the spade. When he heard that Zhang Daoyou had written it, he asked him to write another poem under the title of "Nanyang Trapped". Zhang Taoyu chanted: the enemy siege of Nanyang, no troops and no food, until the city broke down: crying father's crying father, crying mother's crying mother. The officials couldn't help but feel that it was really from one person's hand.

During the Song Dynasty, a Taoist called Zhang Sanfeng was taken care of by a restaurant, and turned his family's well water into good wine. One day, the owner of this house said that it would be better if he had wine lees to feed his pigs. Zhang Sanfeng wrote a limerick on the wall: "The sky is not high, but the heart of a man is higher than the sky; the well water is sold as wine, but the pigs have no dregs". From then on, the wine in the well became water again.

During the Ming Dynasty, a scholar named Xie Jin fell in front of a family because of slippery roads in the rain, and a woman's laughter came from inside the curtain. Xie Jin casually recited a limerick: spring rain is as expensive as oil, down the street flow, slippery bachelor, laugh bad old cow. This is a poisonous poem.

Not only do grassroots write limericks, Taoist priests write limericks, literati write limericks, even the emperor will write limericks. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, a group of civil and military ministers went to visit the emperor's tomb, and when they saw the stone men and horses on both sides of the sacred road, a Hanlin Academy bachelor showed off his knowledge and said, "What a good Wengzhong ah! The emperor saw that he reversed Wengzhong into Zhongweng, so he reversed four words in one breath and wrote a limerick: Wengzhong how to call Zhongweng, must be under the window of the lesser man's work. The first thing I want to do is to get the money to pay for it.

How can you say limerick without mentioning the titan of the limerick field, the dog meat general Zhang Zongchang?

Zhang Zongchang is a poor man from birth, 15 years old before giving people cattle, the back of the Guandong, ran to the Northeast to repair railroads, but there is one thing, people are smart, people repairing railroads have learned a foreign language: Russian.

With this feature, he became a Western drift, ran to Siberia to pan for gold, learned to shoot the gun, and then joined the group, slowly from a group of Qubei stood out.

Then talk about Zhang Zongchang, anecdotes a lot, write limerick is one of them. Here are a few of the limericks he wrote: This one, for example, is about lightning:

I saw a chain of fire in the sky, as if the Jade Emperor wanted to smoke.

If the Jade Emperor doesn't smoke, why is there a chain of fire?

Don't laugh, it's really vivid in here.

There's also a song about Daming Lake, about Qianlong running into Rongmu.

Da Ming Lake, Ming Lake is big,

There are lotus flowers in Da Ming Lake.

There are toads on top of the lotuses.

A poke and a hop.

Plain language is all it takes to write the story of Qianlong's wild battle with Rongmu.

There are also written Baotu

Baotu, spring Baotu, three eyes generally thick. Three streams of water, the light goo, goo goo goo light goo.

Is not very interesting?

The general culture can not write.

It's not a bad idea to write a poem like this, because you've practiced your martial arts and you've returned to the real world.

There is also a tour of Mount Taishan:

From a distance, Mount Taishan is dark and gloomy, with a thin upper head and a thick lower head.  

From afar, Mount Tai is a dark and gloomy place, the upper part is thin and the lower part is thick.

How image ah, a black big thick Tarzan is not immediately in front of your eyes?

And then there's the laugh at Liu Bang

I've heard that Xiang Yu's power pulls down the mountain, and he's scared that Liu Bang is going to run away.

This is the first time I've ever seen a movie in which I had to go back to Pei County.

This should be the most thorough dislike of Liu Bang.

And then there's the Great Wind Song:

I'll write a Great Wind Song, too, which is about firing a cannon and blasting his mother, and about going home to his hometown. The first is to count the heroes and Zhang Zongchang, and the second is to swallow Fusan with a giant whale.

And also directly challenge the Jade Emperor:

The Jade Emperor's grandfather is also surnamed Zhang, why is it difficult for me Zhang Zongchang. The first thing you need to do is to get rid of the old man, and then you can use the cannons to blast your mother.

These limerick poems are definitely a good idea.

In fact, this kind of limerick is still more interesting, at least than the current poems do not know where to go, do not believe that I will give you a paste:

In 10,000 meters high altitude,

On top of the Tu-104 aircraft,

No wonder the sun is twice as bright,

Inside and outside the aircraft with two The sun is twice as bright inside and outside the plane!

The tireless spirit, the sublime mind,

condensed into a symphony,

like the silent mountains,

and like the boundless ocean!

Of course, there are good poems, such as Yu Xiuhua's is very good.

Through half of China to sleep with you

In fact, sleeping with you and being slept with by you is more or less the same, it's just

the force of the collision of the two bodies, it's just that this force has given rise to the flowers

It's just that the virtual spring of these flowers makes us think that life has been reopened

In half of China, everything is happening: the volcano is spewing, the rivers are drying up

Some people don't know what to do with their own lives.

Some uncaring political prisoners and exiles

Moose and cranes all the way at gunpoint

I'm going to sleep with you through the rain of bullets and bombs

I'm pushing countless nights into one dawn to sleep with you

I'm running through countless me's to sleep with you

I'm being taken astray by butterflies of course

Some praises as spring. Think of some praise as spring

Think of a village similar to Yokohama as my hometown

And they

are all indispensable reasons for me to go to sleep with you

What's good about it is that poems are bound to be good if they come from the heart.

If it comes from under your ass, it stinks.

No one answered the poem of Zhang Zongchang, the warlord of Shandong during the Republic of China period? Come on, come on, let's enjoy it!

This one I guess we all heard a little

Do you remember the toad on the shore of Daming Lake?

The three great attractions of Jinan are so close to spoiling Thousand Buddha Mountain.

Luckily, I didn't roam around the country composing poems.

This poem is very anti-superstition, though it is a bit of an oil painting.

The funniest one is this one. Since it's untitled, I think it can be called "The Trouble with Many Wives".

Flashpoint turns out to be the Jade Emperor wanting to smoke and lighting a fire. Imagination is fine.

Lightning is the Jade Emperor lighting a fire, and snow is the Jade Emperor sifting lime would be understandable.

Are you sure you're related to Zhang Liang?

This one is rather ambitious, and when you think about it, it's still Liu Bang who is cultured.

The first two that come to mind are related to snow.

One is like this, a scholar an official a rich man in a walk fire drinking poetry, a beggar in the window to avoid the snow, snow is big, the house of three people decided to snow as the subject matter of each verse. Xiu Cai: "The snow has fallen to the ground." Official: "This is the Royal Ruiqi." Rich man: "What's the harm in three more years of snow?" Exactly three sentences, the difference between one to make a song, is not sure what to do, the beggar is shivering outside the window, listening to the rich man said inside the gas is not to a place, pick up a sentence: "put your mother's dog farts!" Just make up a song.

There is also a song, the Tang Dynasty Zhang oil, "a cage on the river, a hole in the well. The yellow dog is white, the white dog is swollen." This poem vividly reveals the sudden change of the snow, which is interesting to read.

In short, although the limerick is not as elegant as the literati poems, it is refreshingly vulgar and funny.

Question: What are some funny limericks in history?

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First, the literati's limerick

The limerick is mostly vernacular poetry, for example, Hu Shi's two butterflies, in fact, can also be categorized as a limerick, Two Butterflies

However, not all understandable poems are limerick, the good poems choose the words carefully, pay attention to the sound of the rhythm and elegance. For example, many of the Tang Dynasty's best lines are very shallow, such as Li Bai's "Silent Night Thoughts":

Second, vulgar limericks

Generally, we think of limericks as being particularly colloquial, or even a bit vulgar, and most of them do not have much context or emotion, for example, the legendary Zhang Dailu "Wing Snow" is quite famous: "

In the Republic of China (ROC) period, the world was in chaos and heroes came out of the chaos, and a lot of people who were not very cultured also liked to write poems, such as Feng Feng, and he was a great writer.

In the Republic of China, many people like to write poems, for example, Feng Yuxiang's limerick, it is said that he wrote a "poem on forest protection":

Zhang Zongchang's limerick is also widely circulated, "Touring Taishan Mountain":

"Daming Lake":

The limerick of the Tang people is quite philosophical

There is an extraordinary character in the Tang Dynasty called Wang Fanzhi, who wrote a philosophical limerick, and it is very important for the Tang people to write their own poetry. He wrote some philosophical limerick poems, which were even evaluated by the later generation as "teaching and admonishing the scholars" or "enlightening the fools and ignorant scholars".

Most of the ancients were illiterate, and the literati could not read, but some simple language is easier to spread, and Wang Fanzhi's poems have the role of educating the common people.

Zheng Zhenduo, a famous scholar in modern times, once cited Wang Fanzhi's "I have ten mu of fields" and "outside the city, earth buns" as two examples of poems

Zheng Zhenduo commented that "such a straightforward escape from misanthropy to pleasure. Zheng Zhenduo commented, "Such a straightforward escape from misanthropy to enjoyment has been found in our poems from time to time, but it has never been so boldly and painfully expressed by Fan Zhi!

Conclusion

Bai Juyi's quest for the "crone's understanding" of his poetry was in fact an attempt to eliminate one of the drawbacks of literati poetry: today, we have a barrier to reading literary and ancient poetry, and the illiterate ancients naturally had the same barrier.

Gao Xiaosong in the "20180518 miscellaneous library collection of time and light", talked about Chinese folk opera, introduced the miscellaneous library collection of some folk such as the wooden fish book of a class of singsongs, these singsongs are extremely popular and easy to understand, and even some vulgar text.

But these were the cultures that the less educated people were exposed to, and the government and some merchants of the time even used this channel to spread their policies and goods.

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Nine questions about limericks:

1. Why are they called limericks?

The reason why a limerick is called a limerick is because of a scholar named Zhang Daolu, who started the limerick.

2, the original meaning of the limerick

The limerick began to refer to the poems of Zhang Daiyou, and later referred to the poems of slang, humor, and small and interesting.

3, the characteristics of the limerick

easy to understand, witty and humorous, small and interesting ......

4, the format of the limerick

limerick only requires rhyming, as for the couplets, level and oblique, the meter, these, just two words: arbitrary!

5, the purpose of the limerick

The limerick is generally spontaneous, mostly to mock or ridicule the social situation, can also be used as a guessing game.

6, the origin of the limerick

One theory is that Zhang Taoyu's "Wing Snow": a cage on the river, a black hole on the well, a yellow dog with a white body, a white dog with a swollen body; there is also another theory is that Zhang Taoyu's untitled poem: a million thieves trapped in the Nanyang, but also no rescue and no food, and one day the city broke down, crying father's father, crying mother's crying mother.

7, the reason for the widespread emergence of limerick

easy to write, easy to understand, easy to remember, easy to spread!

8, the history of the limerick

The limerick is widely appeared in people's view since the Middle Tang Dynasty after Zhang Taolu. But before the Middle Tang Dynasty, this type of poem has already appeared, only not yet titled the name of the limerick.

9, limerick classics

?A

Mrs. Tai Lao is not a human being

Nine heavenly nymphs come down to the mortal world

Raising children are all thieves

Stealing peaches to honor the mother

?B

The county magistrate is originally called Wang

Bent on being the emperor

Ka-ching with a click

Lives were lost

?C

A pear blossom pressed down on a begonia

Attracted a bunch of lecherous wolves

Bright-eyed and white-toothed, it was a delightful sight to behold

It was known as "The Beauty" for miles and miles of towns and villages

?D

A girl of eighteen is a blossom

Her fragrance was so fragrant that she pressed down on the branches of the tree

It was a intoxicating smell for the visitors

Looking down, I only cared about the peach blossoms. Just looking down at the peach blossoms

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History The long river has its waves, but it also has waves, and the limerick is a spark of folk wisdom that has been passed down and recorded.

Chen Sheng Wu Guang is good at using limericks to publicize himself. First, he made up a limerick saying that the world is going to change, and then he pulled out a slip of paper from the mouth of a fish and wrote a riddle that really answered the limerick.

A book works in the most written limerick is the "Water Margin", moving less than that is to hear the neighborhood children sing this and that, there is a line describing Gao Ziangzui: ragged children is Gao Ziangzui, the capital has a reason for the development of the cause, only because of a foot of mandarin ducks crutch, kicking a lieutenant into the stream of people. The other poems are all of a high standard, but these are not written by him, I think he was tired of writing and resting on his wife's behalf, right?

Ji Xiaolan and Heshen this big corrupt official fight, the emperor reuse his ability but jealous of his talent, once gave wine to get him drunk, asked to write a poem, Ji Xiaolan drunkenly wrote: a petal two petals, three four petals, five petals, six petals, seven eight petals. Write half fell asleep, Heshen took this sentence like a limerick to the emperor in front of the complaint, said Ji Xiaolan disrespectful to the emperor, the emperor also fire immediately found Ji Xiaolan asked to write the following two sentences, this time Ji Xiaolan woke up most of the wine, had to continue to write: nine petals, ten petals and eleven petals, flying off the grass are not seen. Finally, the poem to write alive!

The great warlord Zhang Zongchang is known as the three do not know marshal, do not know how much territory they have, do not know how many troops they have, do not know how many women they have. On this also pretend to do elegant poetry book, write Taishan: look at Taishan black, on the top of the thin to the bottom of the thick, such as Taishan upside down, the bottom of the thin to the top of the thick! The first time I saw it, it was a very good one, and it was a very good one!

Although the limerick is not very careful about the meter, and does not pay attention to the couplet and the level and oblique. But it can be used to ridicule the social situation and describe a humorous attitude towards life is very suitable. So the limerick is not the patent of people with low level, anyone can write, elegant and vulgar **** appreciation. Here and everyone to exchange a few.

1, "bamboo shoots stewed meat poem" by Su Shi

No bamboo is vulgar, no meat makes people thin. The bamboo shoots are not vulgar and not thin, the bamboo shoots are stewed with pork.

Su Shi is famous for his love of pork, the master of the production of Dongpo meat for this purpose also wrote a special pork "Pork Fugue". Full of foodie one.

2, "New Year's Eve Poem" by Tang Pak Fu

Chai rice, oil, salt, soy, vinegar and tea, like all in other people's homes. I have nothing to do at the end of the year, but to see the plum blossoms in the Zhulan Temple.

Tang Pak Fu's self-deprecation at the time of his greatest disappointment. How much heartache is revealed in the humor. That everyone sings about the flamboyant genius, the heart of the lonely and bitter only know themselves.

3, "Daming Lake" by Zhang Zongchang

Daming Lake, Ming Lake is big, Daming Lake has lotus flowers. There is a toad on top of the lotus, a poke and a hop.

The only person who can write a limerick with the feeling of "Lefu" is Zhang Zongchang, the king of limericks. Read this limerick, can not help but remind people of "Jiangnan can pick lotus, lotus leaves, fish play between the lotus leaves." The mood of the poem. There is the imaginary and the real, the big and the small, the static and the dynamic.

When it comes to limericks, Mr. Hu Shi, who has 35 doctoral degrees, is definitely the king of limericks.

For example, Hu Shih's good friend Hu Xingfo had a big nose. One day Hu Shih went to Hu Xingfo's house as a guest, and it so happened that the host was not there, so Hu Shih had nothing to do, so he made a joke about Hu Xingfo's big nose.

The nose of everyone has, only the king big fierce.

A pagoda hangs straight, two pipes hang upside down.

Kissing all have no share, smell great credit.

A sneeze in Jiangnan, Jiangbei rain misty.

Another example is that he went to study abroad, see the street full of blonde girls, can not help but take the foreigners to find fun.

The head of the blonde hair, not a single stay.

It's just a matter of fighting for breath, not for the limelight.

The family should be free.

The new title is "New Woman".

Another time, after the July 7th Incident, Hu Shi made a generous patriotic speech, which was ridiculed by other literati in poems. When Hu Shi realized this, he wrote a limerick about a cat calling for spring in response.

Which cat does not call spring?

The cat's voice is a symbol of the summer, and the cicada's voice is a symbol of the summer.

Which toad does not sing at night? Where is the gentleman who does not speak?