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How interesting are Chinese characters? How many literati in ancient and modern times enjoyed it? What interesting stories about spelling have you heard?

As we all know, many scholars in ancient China mainly played with words. For example, there was a literary game called word splitting in ancient times, which was mainly used by ancient literati to write lyrics, write poems, make wine lists and do crossword puzzles. So there are many anecdotes in history because of word splitting. Among the anecdotes that I heard about the ancient people's word-splitting, what impressed me the most was Su Shi's monk couplet with Fo Yin and Li Baiqiao's explanation of Yueyang Loulian. First of all, it is an anecdote about the calligraphy of monks Su Shi and Fo Yin. As we all know, Su Shi was a famous litterateur in ancient China, who made great achievements in poetry, prose, calligraphy and painting. Fo Yin, a monk, is a close friend of Su Shi, and his literary attainments are also profound. Once Su Shi went to Fo Yin to find a monk and saw a monk from Fo Yin and three carpenters discussing the woodcarving dog at the top of the temple. Su Shi suddenly had a brainwave and thought of a couplet, so he stepped forward and casually said to the monk in Fo Yin, "A dog surrounded by four people is a couplet. When monk Fo Yin was frowning and thinking about how to make couplets, he happened to see two carpenters passing by carrying wood, so he spit out a sentence: They walked forward carrying wood. " Su Shi's couplet is a Chinese character with four mouths around a dog, and Fo Yin spelled a Chinese character in the same way, which can be said to be very seamless.

Then, the poet Li Bai skillfully told an anecdote about couplets. In ancient times, scholars liked to climb the stairs to write poems, among which Yueyang Tower was one of the favorite buildings of ancient scholars, such as Li Bai, Li Shangyin and other great poets. Among them, the poet Li Bai boarded Yueyang Tower six times, leaving a lot of treasures here. When Li Bai boarded Yueyang Tower for the sixth time, there were three words left by passers-by on the wall of Yueyang Tower, one, insect and two. People couldn't understand this meaning, so when Li Bai arrived, they asked him. Li Bai looked at the wall and thought for a long time, saying that this is a couplet left by the immortal, in which one word means water, sky and color, while the word worm and word are boundless.

Finally, in fact, there are many anecdotes about ancient calligraphy. For example, Fo Yin monk and Su Xiaomei joked with each other with calligraphy couplets, and the four talented people in the south of the Yangtze River spelled poems with each other.