In the treasure house of China's 5,000-year-old culture, there are ancient poems, thousand-character texts, family names, couplets, etc., which are familiar to us since childhood, and they show the wisdom of the ancients in a unique art form.
Some of them have a flash of inspiration, which makes people feel refreshed;Some are colorful and rich in heritage;Others, with surprising language and no lack of humor. That's what we're going to talk about todayIt can be both spring and snow, and it can also be a couplet of the Riba people
As a son and daughter of China, it goes without saying that the couplet can be said to beUncle Liu Huang returned to Shu - Shu (uncle) has arrived home
The creation of couplets will not be like writing quatrains, poems and the like, it needs to chew the words and export into chapters, it is very flexible, whether it is a literati or a peasant people, you can come to a sentence anytime and anywhere.
Therefore, there have been many strange couplets from ancient times to the present, among which there is a very interesting couplet, full of irony, but it has been applauded by people and has been passed down to this day. This couplet is:
Lufu girl, the lower mouth is larger than the upper mouth;The son of the Xu family, there are more evil people than righteous people
Who is the girl from Lufu?Who is the son of the Xu family?The story of this can be traced back to the Qing Dynasty more than 200 years ago.
As we all know, during the Qing Dynasty, feudal etiquette and religion entered its heyday, and the society paid attention to the three outlines and five constants, and men were superior to women.
Especially for womenChastity is especially important。And this couplet was born on the wedding night of a woman, and this woman is the girl of Lufu in the couplet.
To say that this Miss Lu is not an ordinary woman, she is a rich lady, relying on the power of her family, she is rampant and domineering among the people, she does her own thing, and has personal affairs with many men, in a word, it is no moral bottom line.
According to common sense, shouldn't the daughter of a rich family always stay in the boudoir, read and practice calligraphy?In fact, although the Lu family has strong financial resources, the money is not earned honestly and conscientiously, and most of their ancestors are local ruffians and hooligans, who have made a fortune by abducting and abducting them, colluding with the government, and preying on the common people.
However, Miss Lu's self-indulgence is naturally well-known among the neighbors, and the city is full of wind and rain
So when it came time to wait for the boudoir and talk about marriage, Miss Lu's family was naturally sad and helpless.
After all, Miss Lu's arrogance and willfulness and disobedience to women's morality are already well known, no matter how the Lu family marries, how much silver and jewelry they give, no one comes to propose marriage.
Miss Lui suffered a setback in the "marriage market".20,000 taels ** can't be exchanged for an uncle。The Lu family was anxious, and at this moment, a son staggered into the Lu family, claiming to be surnamed Xu, and came to propose marriage. This cola broke the Lu family, and finally waited for a "big injustice".
However, after asking carefully, everyone knew that this Xu Gongzi was not a good person, and what he did with the Lu family was a deed, that is, a person who bullied the people's daughters and did all the bad things
The woman's fox, the man's heart, can also be regarded as a "good match", everyone knows that they are naturally applauded, as the so-called one thing to one thing, everyone hopes that these two demon kings can surrender to each other, don't trouble the world anymore!
Miss Lu originally had no one to marry, and Xu Gongzi had no one to marry, these two extremes became a family, which is really curious.
During the Qing Dynasty, although life was relatively poor compared to now, and the ideology was somewhat conservative, under the infiltration of Confucian culture, the literati were concerned about some immoral things.
is different from the way of dealing with swear words on the screen of Internet trolls and keyboard warriors in today's society, and they will express their disgust in the most literary and graceful way.
After a literati knew about Miss Lu and Xu Gongzi, he was also amazed, and at the instigation of others, he wrote with a pen:"The lower mouth is greater than the upper mouth, and there are more evil people than righteous people."
And this couplet was also given to the newlywed Xu Lu couple by a good deed, and the couple wandered in the Fengyue place all the year round, and naturally understood the irony in it, and was ashamed on the spot.
There are three unique elements in this couplet, each of which makes people applaud: one must contain the irony and the allusion is spread out outside. In the upper link"The lower mouth is greater than the upper catchy" is an image of irony, alluding to Miss Lu's self-doing and uninhibited
And the next link"There are more wicked than righteous people.", then directly wrote Xu Gongzi's accumulated crimes, full of evil. It can be said that this couplet directly hits the pain points of the two!
Two uniques: split the word into two mouths, and the word is turned into Xu. The word "Lu" is split into two "mouths", that is, the lower mouth is larger than the upper mouth;The word "evil" corresponds to "oblique", and the left side of the word Xu is next to the double person, which is the oblique person, so it is the "oblique (evil) person".
WhileThe right side of the word "Xu" is "Yu", and the "person" on the word "Yu" is upright, so it is "Zhengren". In the group of words, it is self-evident who is ironic
Three musts: smooth and natural, easy to understand. This coupletIt is both cultural and down-to-earthWhen the people hear it, they also know the deep meaning, which is simple and easy to understand.
I have to say that the literary accomplishment of this literati is really high, and it is no wonder that this couplet has been handed down to this day.