Homophonic story

There are many homophones in Chinese characters. The homophonic couplets created by clever use of homophonic words are interesting and fascinating.

Co-displayed homophones appear in couplets.

The baby dug the frog out of the tile;

Mother scolded the horse for eating hemp.

No mountain is better than Wushan;

He Ye Can is as round as a lotus leaf.

In the above example, the upper and lower couplets use 1 group homophones respectively.

Move a chair and lean on tung to play with the moon;

Lights, benches and cabinets, and separate books.

Boys hit tung trees, tung trees fall, boys are happy;

The girl gnawed at the duck head, which was salty.

In the above example, two groups of homophonic characters were used in the upper and lower couplets respectively.

Hungry chickens steal rice, children fight;

The summer mouse cools the beam and the guest coughs.

In the above example, the upper couplet and the lower couplet each use three groups of homophones.

Jia Dao drunk not false;

Liu Ling drinks nothing but zero.

The paper dust around the commander flew to the commander's head;

Write it in your stomach and fill it up.

Jia Dao was a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Liu Ling is one of the "Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest" in Wei and Jin Dynasties. She likes drinking. "Director" and "editing" are both posts, the former is Wu Zhi, and the latter is clerical.

Miyun has no rain, Tongzhou water can't cross the boat;

There is autumn in Juye, and wheat in Jimo field.

"Tongzhou" and "Jimo" are place names. This kind of couplet can be understood at a glance; If you just listen, you often don't know what to say

There are also homophones composed of words with the same or similar vowels:

The deer in the north of the house is alone;

Xixi chicken crows together.

A single explicit expression. Words that are homophonic with some words in couplets do not appear, and puns are expressed by homophonic relations.

Lotus seeds are bitter in heart;

Pears are sour in the abdomen.

The literal meaning of couplets is obvious, but the author Jin Shengtan implicitly expresses the bitterness and bitterness of separation from his son by using the homophonic relationship between "lotus" and "pity" and "pear" and "parting".

The two boats are parallel, and the rowing speed is not as fast as that of a sailboat;

Playing eight notes together, the flute is more difficult to clear than the flute.

In the first part of the League, the homonyms of "Rushing" and "Luli" and "Sailing Fast" and "Fan Kuai" imply that civilian officials are inferior to military commanders. The second couplet is for another person. "Di Qing" is homophonic with "Di Qing", "Xiao He" and "Xiao He", which means that a military commander is not as good as a civilian.

On the mountain where two apes cut wood, this monkey dared to saw wood;

A horse is stuck in the mud. How can this beast get hooves?

This couplet is a joke. The first couplet was written by one person, and "antithesis" is homophonic with "duality". The second couplet is another person's duplicity, and "out of the hoof" and "out of the question" are homonyms.

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