Ancient Couplets Upper couplet: Good reading is not good reading. The next couplet: good reading is not good reading. This couplet was made by Xu Wei of the Ming Dynasty. The first line refers to the fact that when you are young, you are good at reading but not good at hào, and when you are old, you are good at reading but not good at reading. Previous couplet: The idle man is exempted from entering the wise man. Original couplet: The thief is not coming to the Taoist. New Couplet: Don't come to the laborer. My couplet: Sinners do not come to drunken guests. This couplet was made by Mr. Tanshan of Ming Dynasty. First couplet: Don't enjoy the sweetness of ideals. The next couplet: the future is not money. The first line: I see the plum blossoms sweeping away the snow; the second line: I look at the mountains and dance with the streams. The beauty of this couplet lies in the fact that the first line is read sharply as a musical scale: 'Duo Lai Mifa Soraxi'. The next line is read in dialect: 'one, two, three, four, five, six, seven'. The first couplet: summer rats cool the beam, put up a pen to describe the cat to scare the summer rats. Original couplet: Hungry chicken steals rice, calling children to pick up stones to beat the hungry chicken. Ancient couplet: A thirsty crane draws rice from the river bank; a slave shoots at the thirsty crane. This couplet is also known as 'The Summer Rat Measuring the Liang'. Previous couplet: The summer rat cools the beam, the cat is scared to death along the eaves, hitting the pile, and the old cat eats the corpse. Original couplet: missing! My pair: hungry chickens steal rice, the same child picking up stones hungry chickens escape also fly case, touching the shed he died, the vector stone drop bucket. This line for the netizen to change the previous line and out of the new line, Yu reluctantly and carry on. The first line: chicken hungry beans fight. The next line: the rat summer on the beam cool. Prev: The rhinoceros in the west of the stream is happy to play. Next：囿右鼬悠游. First couplet: this night is a summer vacation. Next line: Enjoy the flowers in the morning. Previous couplet：Shi, Nong, Gong, Shang, Horn, Character and Feather. Next：Heat, cold, warm, cool, respectful and frugal. My couplet: aluminum, copper, gold, molybdenum, water, fire and earth. This couplet is also a strange one. The first line is divided into two parts: Scholar, Agriculturist, Industrialist, and Commercialist; Gong Shang, Jiao, Chou, Feather. The first is the four industries, the second is the five sounds, while there is one word repeated and one word harmonized. The original pair of cold, heat, warmth and coolness are the four senses, and warmth, Liang, civility and frugality are the five virtues of a gentleman. My aluminum, copper, gold and molybdenum for the four metals, gold, wood, water, fire and earth for the five elements. Upper couplet: Traveling to West Lake, lifting a tin pot, a tin pot falls in West Lake, pity the tin pot. Next couplet: Doing the sidewalk, catching bats, bats bumping into the sidewalk, demeaning bats. Original Couplet: The ancient couplet: "When I meet a son, I will add my family, when I meet a son, I will add my family". I'm sorry to say that I'm sorry for the wine bowl. My couplet: "Passing through Tongyan, shooting at the wild geese"; "The wild geese are killed in Tongyan"; "I feel sorry for the wild geese". Jiuwan: Jiuwan Stream in the Three Gorges. Previous couplet: The mud is fat and the grass is still thin. The next couplet: the sundial is short and the night is long. This couplet harmonizes with the words 'the nun is fat and the monk is thin'; 'the ghost is short and the nightmare is long'. Previous couplet: Cutting off one's hair and violating the law. The next line is: "The monk is in shackles". This couplet was made to mock a monk for violating the law. Prev: The flower of the harvest is as beautiful as the flower of the lotus. Next couplet: Berries are more sour than plums. Previous couplet: Painting the Temple Temple Painting the Temple of Miaohua. Next：The famous garden is called Yuanmingyuan. Previous couplet: Agate is not a horse's brain. Next：Rangan is not a wolf's liver. This couplet was written by Wang Hong of Ming Dynasty. First line: Agate is not a horse's brain. The next line: "Rengan is not a wolf's liver". It's a perfect line. The first couplet: It is raining heavily, and I am afraid of being hit by mud; I will leave eggs and tofu for my son-in-law, but my son will not say anything to me. This couplet is rumored to be the words of father-in-law of Zhong Xianfang in Qing Dynasty to keep his son-in-law when it rains, which seems to be commonplace, but is actually well-intentioned and extremely skillful. Because it uses the rhetorical technique of harmonic puns, the whole couplet is the name of an ancient person. They are: Xia Dayu: the name of the king of Xia; Kong Zhongni: the name of Confucius; Ji Dan: the name of King Wu of Zhou; Du Fu and Liu Yuxi: poets in Tang Dynasty; Zimo and Yan Hui: disciples of Confucius. Because it is so difficult, it is said that no one can correct it so far. Previous couplet: It's raining heavily, I'm afraid of mud in the middle, eggs and tofu stay with my son-in-law. Zi Mo Yan Hui. My couplet: Injured heel, fear of invasion of the body, no doctor, no medicine Anzhisheng. I will recover from my illness. This couplet is another version of the above couplet. My Harmony Shang Zu Geng: name of the King of Shang; Ji Ye Sheng: name of Duke Zhuang of Zheng in Spring and Autumn; Wu Yi: Three Kingdoms-Shu general; Mei Yao: character in the List of the Feuding Gods; An Zhisheng: Han Immortal. Sick (Sun Bin). Recover (Kang Fu) Previous couplet: It rains heavily to irrigate the wheat for planting. Next couplet: The fields in the dry upland will be dry. This couplet harmonizes Xia Dayu; Mozi Spring and Autumn Sons (Mai and Mozi are ancient homophones); Guan Zhong: Spring and Autumn Character; Han Gao Di: Han Gaozu Liu Bang; Tian He: Master of Yi in the early Han Dynasty; Bigan: Minister of Shang Zhou. Previous couplet: Sinan woman goes to Tongren. Next couplet: Shangcai cook comes to Huili. This couplet was written by Wu Jin San in Qing Dynasty. Its friends out of this couplet refers to a Sinan local women to Tongren there to go, Harmony: Sinan women with the people to go; into the three pointing to the chef and the chef, the original chef's ancestry on the Cai, and then live in Huili, often in the two places to and from the Harmony: on the dishes chef braised carp to come. Upper couplet: the recent past is myopia, the capital banned the test of the scholar, the scholar lapel wet, towel wipe. The next couplet: the time when the market began to lose the epic, Shi knowledge of the world lost the situation, is like a stone lion, sworn to erosion. Couplet: the dog gnawed on the river bones Next: floating Dongpo poem This couplet for a day Dongpo and Fo Yin boat trip, saw a dog gnawing the bones on the river bank, Dongpo out of this couplet, harmonized: the dog gnawed on the bones of the monk. Fo Yin immediately threw the poem written by Dong Po into the water, and the next couplet of this, harmonic: the water floating Dong Po's corpse. The first couplet: Fo Yin seeks mussels to eat by the water's edge. The next couplet: Dongpo brought his family on the river. This couplet is about a day when Dong Po went out to play with his family, and encountered Fo Yin digging mussels at the water's edge to eat, so he came up with this couplet. Harmonization: Fo Yin was searching for mussels at the water's edge. Fo Yin heard, to Dong Po with his family and came to the harmonic: Dong Po on the river with the 'yoke' to come. Previous couplet: Yangzi River crossing Yangzi. The next couplet: JiaoShan cave live pepper mountain. This couplet for the Ming Yang Jisheng (the word pepper mountain) inscription Zhenjiang Jiao Mountain couplet. Previous couplet: A white lotus flower in the air, the wind holding the Buddha. Bottom line: A few branches of yellow chestnut trees in the gorge, the moon is far away and the apes are complaining. Previous couplet: Yulan Hall, the magnolia buds are over the fence, wanting to stop the rest of the visit. Bottom line: The Qing Banquet Boat, the fragrance of lotus attracts light swallows, and the love is lost in the clear smoke. This couplet can be quickly read over and over again, which makes it a tongue-twister. Yulan Hall: in the Summer Palace by the Kunming Lake, the bedchamber of Emperor Guangxu. Qing Banquet Boat: a stone boat, in the Summer Palace at the western foot of the Wanshoushan shore, for the garden of the famous water building. Scenic Couplets: In and out of the countryside, the gods of the earth and grain, the spirit of a thousand years, the town of Lushan, West Lake, Fuzhou, the temple of Kaihua, the community on the lake of a few families in Sanzhe, the city of Hibiscus, Fuzhou, Wushan, Pipa Pavilion, a play of running water, a play of the moon, half of the river into the wind, half into the clouds, the first couplet, the cave is still the old scenery, and the next couplet, outside the window, is a new spring, and the crossword, "The bitter end of sweetness comes". It can be used to praise or criticize, to satirize or praise, to encourage or encourage oneself....... Here are a few: (1) At the end of the Qing Dynasty, political corruption was rampant and the selling of officials became a common practice. A Chinese medicine businessman in a city spent a huge amount of money to buy a fourth-grade official, wearing a green coat, people were not to be disrespected, made a ruthless ironic to say: "four green coat, six flavors of di Huang pill." (2) He Yansheng, near the end of the Qing Dynasty, Gansu Buzheng, a study abroad to return to a Tang Hanlin in the letter to him mistakenly wrote "Autumn carriage" as "Autumn generation", and will be "pursued" of the "study". The letter to him mistakenly wrote "Autumn Chariot" as "Autumn generation", and misplaced the word "investigate" as "malefactor". He immediately mocked with a couplet: "The emperor's carriage was in the same carriage, but the husband was even thinking of wrongdoing. The malefactor is a different den, and it is difficult to get rid of eight or eight of them." (3) It is difficult to distinguish between black and white, how can I know north and south; the green and yellow do not come together, I borrow something from you. Here is a story. A rich scholar and a poor scholar is a friend, one day the rich scholar to the courtyard at night to walk, outside the darkness, can not see five fingers. So, he casually recited the first line, but could not think of the next line. At this time, the poor showman came to knock on the door, said: "green and yellow, to borrow something from you." When Fu Xiu Cai heard this, he said, "That's fine, but first you can make a pair of my first line." After saying this, the poor scholar said, "Didn't I get it right when I entered the house?" Rich Xiu Cai thought about it and laughed heartily! (4) A word-for-word couplet: Idle (Idle) looking at the moon in the door, thinking of plowing the fields in my heart. (5) Split-word couplet: Ancient wood is withered, this wood becomes firewood; a woman is good, a young girl is especially good. (7) two boats and into, sculling speed (Lu Su) not as fast as the sail (Fan Kuai) eight sound, flute clear (Di Qing) difficult than the xiaojiao and (Xiao He) (8) South Tongzhou, North Tongzhou, North and South Tongzhou through the North and South; East pawnbroker, West pawnbroker, East and West pawnbrokers when the east and the west. This couplet is famous for its orientation. The first line was written by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, and the second line was improvised by Ji Xiaolan. (9) Sitting in the south and facing the north to eat watermelon, the skin is thrown to the east; from the top to the bottom to read the left biography, the book is turned to the right. (10) The Big Dipper has seven stars, fourteen points in the sky under the water; the lonely geese in the south building fly in pairs with shadows in the moon. Legend has it that when Lin Zexu was a child, he went to his aunt's house to visit relatives, and met several poets and Xu's aunt together with the poem couplets. A poet wanted to test Lin's knowledge, so they came up with a couplet, the clever Lin Zexu immediately came up with the next couplet. The first couplet said, the Big Dipper in the sky is seven stars, reflected in the quiet lake will become fourteen points. The next couplet says, although the lonely goose in the south tower is one, but under the bright moon, "with shadow" will become "a pair of flying". This couplet reflects Lin Zexu's cleverness, wit and erudition.
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