One more thing to add here is that the pairs should be balanced and equal. Flat to square, square to square.
The second one is the wonderful girl from the Ni family.
It is said that there was a Ni family village in the Tang Dynasty. There was a member of the Ni family outside the village. He gave birth to a daughter. She was very smart, played chess, calligraphy and painting, and wrote poems and poems. She was famous far and wide. She was twenty-eight years old, as tall as a flower and jade, and she was beautiful in the sky. In the blink of an eye, when the age of marriage came to be discussed, there were naturally many proposals for marriage. Some princes and grandsons crossed the threshold in groups, but the girls were chosen over and over again, and none of them fell in love. Finally, the girl suggested that she should choose a talented man as her lifelong partner, so she wrote a couplet: "The wonderful person is the girl from the Ni family." In this couplet, the person and the girl are combined into the character "Ni", and the girl is combined into the character "Miao". It is full of fun and very difficult, so no one has been able to match it. Seeing the girl getting older and older, in her seventies, someone actually answered the second line: "The descendants of the stubborn boy and the strong ox." The strong ox combined into the word "犊" , boy combined into the character "grandson", the couplets are correct and very neat, but when asked, the person who answered the lower couplet turned out to be a sixteen-year-old boy. Due to the large age gap, he was never able to do so. In the end, due to Being smart leads to a lifetime of regrets. It can be seen that talent cannot be used casually.
Ye Feng said: "This story has its own second line, but it's still not perfect, so the one named Ruyan wants to know other answers, so it's a question that fits the situation."
The third one is to draw lotus and monk paintings.
The first couplet was left by Tang Bohu in a temple. At first glance, it doesn’t seem to be anything special, but if you read it carefully, you will find that it is a very difficult couplet. The entire first couplet uses the ingenious combination of palindrome and homophony. The pronunciation and reverse pronunciation of " are the same. The overall pronunciation is very subtle, and it is very closely combined with the scene at that time.
As for the second couplet, it is also very exquisite. It was also left by the ancient Li Tiaoyuan. "Shu Lin Han Tie Hanlin Shu" also uses palindrome and homophony, and it is very symmetrical regardless of whether it is oblique or oblique. It can be said to be eternal.
Ye Feng added: "The pairing of 'Painting with lotus and monk painting' and 'Shu Lin Han with Han Lin Shu' are extremely clever and mutually exclusive. The reason why she asked this question was to give everyone some face, otherwise It is also an extremely ugly scene to see the whole army wiped out in five couplets. Anyone who knows how to memorize it can basically answer the third couplet. People who have no talent but don't like to study hard are directly excluded here."
The fourth one is lonely, cold and widowed with an empty window.
It is said that in ancient times, there was a woman who married into a wealthy family. She wanted to be beautiful and talented. But her life was not very good. Her husband died within a few years, leaving her to inherit the family property but guard the empty house alone. As time goes by, I can’t help but feel lonely and alone. She wanted to get married again, but she was afraid that her future husband would not be worthy of her talent. After thinking hard, she decided to marry her through a couplet. The rich man's widow wrote a first couplet and said that if there was an excellent second couplet, she would bring her wealth as a dowry. The first couplet is: Staying with Hakkas, I am lonely and cold and a widow with an empty window. This first couplet is very unusual. Every word in it is in Bao Hijab, but these words exactly express her current lonely living situation, which is very difficult to deal with.
One day, a wandering monk came here. Hearing about the woman's marriage proposal, he went straight to her home. The monk was ugly and his clothes were shabby. The woman did not like him at all. The monk didn't say anything. He picked up a pen and wrote a line. The onlookers stretched their heads and looked at it. The second couplet on the paper was: If you want to become an immortal or a Buddha, you will not be with your spouse, but you will be a monk. Anyone with a little bit of education will understand at a glance that this is an excellent second line, with neat contrasts and a hint of a pun, so everyone applauded and praised it. The rich man's widow saw the monk answering the second couplet, but she did not want to marry this ugly monk. When she was in a dilemma, the monk had already walked away amidst the sound of "Amitabha".
Ye Feng said: "I don't want to be together with my wife but I am a monk. Although this answer is a wonderful second line, it also has problems. But the problem does not refer to the problem of the text itself, but the problem of identity. Since he is a monk who has nothing in the four elements, why should he live in the world? Of course, this is just a story after all. So this second line can be used for reference but cannot be used directly. However, this can also be seen that when the person named Ruyan chooses the pair, he chooses with intention and purpose. After all, there are absolutely no mistakes in the world. Although it is not much, it is still quite a lot. She chose this absolute choice. But it can also be seen that this girl is well-read and it is not an exaggeration. "
As for the fifth one, "Smoke Locked Pond Willow"
Linglong asked at this time: "Dad, the fifth word should be the easiest, right?"
Ye Feng shook his head and said, "No, the fifth one is exactly the most difficult one."
Ye Feng explained that it is said that Qianlong once went to Jiangnan for a scientific examination, and the two candidates were equally matched. Qianlong therefore came out to test, one of them turned around and left on the spot, and the other thought for a long time and had no choice but to leave in anger. Qianlong then ordered the first to go first. When the ministers asked him why, Qianlong said: "My association is absolute, and those who can judge it at a glance must be highly talented."
Indeed, this "smoke-locked pond willow" can be called absolute, because these five words paint a complete picture, layer by layer of thick smoke shrouded in layers of thick smoke, on the edge of the deep pond, surrounded by pieces of willow trees , the artistic conception is very beautiful and quiet, soft yet strong. Moreover, the five-character radicals correspond to the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, which is indeed wonderful.
But this pair was not actually created by Qianlong.
The earliest one in history comes from Chen Zisheng's work "Zhongzhou Thatched Cottage Collection" in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the allusions before the Ming Dynasty are all rumors. Chen Zisheng composed three couplets, which are included in the four poems "Liu Bo Qu". All are based on the five elements versus the five elements. One is: the lamp hangs down the brocade threshold. The poem where it is located is: Smoke locks the willows in the pond, and the lamp hangs on the brocade threshold. Echo dances for the first time, breaks willows and hears songs. The lamp hangs over the brocade threshold and the smoke locks the willows in the pond. I dreamed of the five lakes and the Mekong River, and the mouth of the Langjia embankment. Generally speaking, if the antitheses in a poem are not used alone, they should not be regarded as couplets. However, Chen said in the preface to the two poems: The guest used smoke to lock the pond and willow, with five characters and five lines, and the remainder is a couplet, which resulted in the two poems "Liu Bo Qu", which is correct for those who do good things. It can be seen that the lantern hanging brocade sill wave is specially made to lock the willows in the pond with smoke. It is relatively independent, so it is read as a couplet here. Lamps hanging down are also used as lamp fillers. The second one is: beacon sales are extremely bad. The poem where it is located is: Smoke locks the willows in the pond, and the beacon is sold out at the end of the road. The east branch is filled with spring water, while the south branch is complaining about the autumn wind. ("Sequel to the Song of Locking Willows and Killing Hongs") The third one is: bell sinking terrace pavilion lantern. The poem where it is located is: Smoke locks willows in the pond, and bells sink in the pavilion lanterns. The heart of the lamp is densely red, and the willow eyes are green and clear. ("Smoke Lock Shen Yin")
