Ancient interesting couplets stories

First, Yang Jisheng is good at telling anecdotes.

Yang Jisheng was a famous person in the Ming Dynasty, who was famous for his "coincidence". Born in Rongcheng, Hebei Province, Jiajing was buried. According to legend, he said, "Every time you say it right, you call people good." . Until now, there are many stories about his cleverness among the people.

Legend has it that when Yang Jisheng first entered a private school, one day, an elderly student, Mr. Private School, came. Seeing such an old man coming to study, he laughed at himself: an old student. As soon as the words were finished, Yang Jisheng, who was sitting on the side, took it without thinking: Little Jinshi.

The gentleman who laughed at the "old student" was shocked and said, "Being so smart at such a young age will surely succeed in the future!"

On one occasion, Mr. Xue went out and played a fighting game with the students. I was having fun when my husband suddenly came back, and everyone quickly hid everywhere. Mr. Wang was so angry that he knelt down one by one and went out to hide and disappeared. It is right to ask students. Those who can't get out are exempted from punishment first, and those who can't get out continue to be punished. I saw Yang Jisheng answer correctly with a smile: Show your last name, and give your first name.

The anger on Mr. Wang's face was suddenly swept away and he exclaimed, "This is absolutely wonderful!" "Stretched out his hand to pull Yang Jisheng. From then on, Yang Jisheng became famous for being good at it. During his ten years in private schools, Yang Jisheng also wrote many popular couplets. Once, his cousin Xin Tiyuan came to visit. There was no wine at home, so I went to the hotel to buy it, and the wine was sold out. Xin Tiyuan played a play in the first couplet: no wine is the poor master.

Only a slightly childish voice replied: You Er is a famous minister. Xin Tiyuan's eyes swept away, and the original response turned out to be Xiao Jisheng, and he couldn't help but pay tribute. When Yang Jisheng grew up, he really became a famous minister of the Ming Dynasty. He was a member of the Ministry of War.

Second, selling firewood into the family school

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a "prodigy" named Shi in Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province. Shipan's family is too poor to go to school. He has been cutting wood and grass for money since he was five years old! At the same time, I used my time to secretly learn to read, read, recite poems and fight with an old scholar in the village.

When Shipan was nine years old, he went into town to sell firewood and passed by a private school. Listening to the sound of reading from inside, Lang Lang really wants to be a student in a private school. Just then, Zhang, the owner of the private school, came home in a sedan chair and found Xiao Shipan. Zhang asked him what he was doing standing here, and Xiao Shiban mumbled that he wanted to study in a private school.

Hearing this, Zhang Hexian laughed and said, "The poor boy also wants to study in my private school, and he doesn't want to think about his identity." Under Xiao Shipan's repeated entreaties, Zhang said, "All right, I'll make an appointment. As long as you can match, I can make an exception and let the private school teacher accept you. " Zhang Hexian's first couplet is: the new moon is like a bow, the waning moon is like a bow, the upper chord bow, the lower chord bow.

This couplet uses the words "bow" and "moon" and "string". Zhang thought that this time, the firewood boy would be stumped. Unexpectedly, Xiaoshipan listened to the first couplet and said with a smile, "I can't afford the tuition, but I can't beat that pair." After a little thinking, he made the following couplets: morning glow like brocade, evening glow like brocade, Dongchuan brocade, Xichuan brocade.

Shipan's couplets are composed of the word "Jin" and the words "Xia" and "Chuan", which fully meet the requirements of Zhang's couplets. Chao and dusk are used to represent "new" and "disabled", and East and West are used to represent "upper" and "lower".

Third, divide customers.

Jiang Dao, a young writer in the Ming Dynasty, was quick-witted and resourceful when he was young, and he was famous in the countryside.

One day, his grandfather took him to a temple to play. Jiang Dao jumped down from the high steps and jumped to the bottom three times and two times. Grandpa saw it and said with a smile: three jumps, jump off the ground. Jiang Dao looked up below and just saw the tree; There is a bird flying into the sky with a snort. He immediately replied: fly, fly to the sky.

Grandpa was very happy to hear this and praised it again and again.

Once, his father's friend came to visit. They sat in the living room, reciting poems and couplets. Suddenly, dark clouds were gathering. Then, a strong wind blew. After a while, it began to rain heavily, and the rain splashed on the window. One of the guests saw the raindrops on the window paper and asked for a couplet: freezing rain sprinkled on the window, two o'clock in the east and three o'clock in the west.

This couplet means that at the moment, cold raindrops hit the window, with raindrops in the east window and raindrops in the west window. Literally, the word "freezing" in Freezing Rain consists of "east" and two points, and the word "sprinkling" in Sprinkling Window consists of "west" and three points.

In this way, Lian Yi not only explained the scene of rain hitting the window at that time, but also explained the composition of the words "frozen" and "sprinkled". In this way, the bottom line is not good. What the second half of the sentence requires is related to what the first half of the sentence says. The first and third words of the first half of the sentence are really difficult to spell. The guests present thought hard and racked their brains, which was difficult to cope with, and the living room was silent for a while.

At this moment, the servant brought the melon, and Jiang Tao's father cut the melon quickly and invited the guests to eat it. Standing by and watching his father cut melons, Jiang Tao, the guest who ate melons, immediately said, "I'll make couplets." Then he chanted: Divide the guests, cut them horizontally and cut them vertically.

When a word comes out, it is full of surprises. In the first half of the second couplet, Jiang Dao talked about eating melons at that time. The second half of the sentence "horizontal seven knives" and "vertical eight knives" not only refers to cutting melons, but also has a direct relationship with the first half. At the same time, "seven" and "knife" are the first word "cut" in the first half of the sentence when viewed horizontally from left to right; "Eight" and "knife" stand up and down, which together is the third word "fen".

Fourth, Xiao Yuqian got it right, showing his literary talent.

Yu Qian was born in Qiantang, Zhejiang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang). In the Ming Dynasty, water was in the grave, and he was a famous national hero. He has been studious and ambitious since childhood. When you read a book, you can recite it immediately and export sentences. Once, Yu Qian's mother combed his hair into a double bun to go to school. One day, a monk named Lan saw her. Lan Gu Chun joked about his appearance: Tauren like to have dragon horns.

Yu Qian immediately responded: Has the dog ever had ivory in its mouth? Lan Gu Chun cut his throat and left in a hurry. When Yu Qian came home, he said to his mother, "You can't comb my double bun anymore. A few days later, Lan happened to pass by the school again and saw Yu Qian's hair combed into three forks, so he once again said that a triangle is like a drum. Yu Qian responded with a voice: the bald head is like a hammer.

Lan praised his quick thinking and said to Qian's teacher, "When this child grows up, he must be a pillar of the country." One year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, when Yu Qian went to the ancestral grave with his family and passed the Phoenix Terrace, his uncle gave him a pair of couplets that read: Today is the same as Phoenix Terrace.

Yu Qian immediately responded: He monopolized Qilin Pavilion in 2008. It's easy to get involved. I didn't even listen to adults until I picked these words. I am surprised by this ambitious dialogue. His uncle said, "This child is thousands of miles away in our home!" "

On the way back from sweeping the grave, I passed a memorial arch with three words written on it: Guixin Street. Yu Qian's uncle said: The first two words of these three words belong to heavenly stems (namely, A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren and Gui). It is not easy to get a correct place name. "Unexpectedly, before Qian Yong (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), I wrote the name Shaanxi, right: Meridian Station.

His uncles and nephews were even more surprised and happy when they heard this place name, because the first two words of this place name happened to be the two words in the local branch (namely, Zi, Ugly, Yin, Mao, Chen, Ji, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai), which just paired with (Guixin Street).

Two years later, Yu Qian became a county student. At that time, a policeman visited a temple in his hometown. An accompanying official pointed to the Buddha statue in the temple and said, Three giant buddhas sit on lions, elephants and lotus flowers. No one is right at present. Yu Qian happened to be there, and casually replied, scholar, climbing the phoenix and the dragon. Clap your hands and say it's wonderful.

How do you know that fish will not become dragons?

Qiu Jun, a scholar in Ming Dynasty, was born in Qiongshan. When I was a child, I studied in a school. One day, it was raining cats and dogs, and some seats were leaking. Everyone scrambled for seats that didn't leak rain. At that time, Qiu Jun was competing for a seat with the son of a local dignitary. Two people to outdo each other, flushed. The teacher saw it and said, "You two should argue separately. I have a pair of five-character couplets, so I can sit in the right place. " Then read: drizzle drops on your shoulders.

When the noble son heard this, he was dumbfounded. He couldn't say for sure, but Qiu Jun had answers and said that Qingyun was the first step. Hearing this, the teacher had to give Qiu Jun the seat that didn't leak rain. The son of the powerful didn't believe it, so he came home from school and cried to his father about competing for a seat. Hearing this, the dignitaries were furious and sent for Qiu Jun to go home. As soon as they met, they shouted angrily, Who said dogs can bully tigers?

Qiu Jun smiled contemptuously and calmly replied: How do you know that fish will not become dragons? Hearing this, the dignitaries got a fright and knew that Xiao Qiujun was not an idle person. When he grew up, he must have something to say and had to let him go back.

Qiu Jun has grown up and is really successful. Jingtai was a scholar, taught editing, and offered wine to the son of China during Chenghua. Xiaozong acceded to the throne, served as the minister of rites, and served as a university student in Wenyuange to participate in maintenance. He is studious by nature, opposed to "writing dangerously" and is familiar with national allusions.

He thought that Xia's "University Extension and Supplement" was incomplete, so he borrowed a lot of books to supplement it, which was called "University Extension and Supplement". He was blind in his right eye in his later years, but he still insisted on reading and browsing.