Couplet culture has always been one of the excellent traditional cultures in China, which has been handed down to the present day and has a history of thousands of years, leaving many famous pairs and wonderful stories through the ages.
The following tells the story of a couplet of Fang Bao, a prodigy of the Qing Dynasty.
Fang Bao became famous at a young age, and later won the first place in the Jiangnan Township Examination.
When Fang Bao was young, he was already familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, and when he was four years old, he could already understand the couplets.
One day, my parents went to work in the field, and Fang Bao also followed, it was raining in the valley, and every family was busy with spring ploughing, ploughing the ground, and sowing seeds. There was a busy scene in the field, and Fang Bao was running in the field. Children are very curious about everything, running to Uncle Li's cornfield for a while, running to the forest to catch butterflies for a while, and running to Uncle Wang's paddy field to play in the water for a while
As they worked, they sang songs, and one of the old farmers was baling seedlings with straw and still reading it.
"Straw Seedling, Father Hugging Son";
When Fang Bao heard this, he was very interested and curious, so he asked the old uncle, what does this mean?The old farmer looked at the immature child in front of him, and said with a smile: "This is a couplet, this straw is the father, this seedling is the son, the seedling will become a straw when it grows up, and the two of them hugging each other is the father holding the son, just like your father hugging you."
Fang Bao seemed to understand whether he understood or not, and muttered in his mouth: "Straw, it's my father;."The seedlings are the sons". The old farmer saw that Fang Bao was thinking very seriously there, and asked, can you make a couplet?You're still a kid, and if you can get it right, I'll reward you with a bag of candy.
Fang Bao thought about it for a long time, but still didn't come up with it, the old farmer said, it seems that you can't eat my bag of candy, Fang Bao saw that in the bamboo forest in the distance, several peasant women were digging bamboo shoots, and the bamboo basket was already full of bamboo shoots. Seeing this scene, I was instantly inspired, so I looked at the old farmer and said, I have eaten today's candy. I've already thought of the next link.
"Bamboo basket with bamboo shoots and mothers".
If straw is the father of seedlings, then bamboo is the mother of bamboo shoots. The old farmer couldn't believe that this wonderful link was actually a child, incredible, and exclaimed: "Prodigy" So the old farmer was willing to gamble and lose, "I will buy you candy after I finish my work, and your boy's future is limitless." After all, Fang Bao is very proud.
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