The sister-in-law has a small cherry mouth, her teeth are sloppy, she swallows coarse and spits fine, and the lower link makes people stunning
Are couplets a treasure of the Chinese nation? As long as you turn on the TV and watch fantasy time-traveling dramas or costume dramas, you will be no strangers to couplets. In TV dramas, the walls or roofs are plastered with couplets, creating a unique landscape. These couplets are elegant, far-reaching, and mesmerizing. You can't help but wonder, behind these couplets, is there a profound cultural heritage of the Chinese nation?
The story begins in the Xining period of the Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, there were two families in rural Shanxi, the Zeng brothers and the Li brothers. The Zeng family has only two brothers and sisters, the elder brother Zeng Hong and the younger sister Zeng Yu. Zeng Hong is strong and optimistic, and takes good care of his sister. Zeng Yu is a pampered girl, and is often praised by the villagers for being beautiful and smart.
The family situation of the Li brothers is more complicated, the eldest brother Li Yong married his daughter-in-law Li Shan, because Li Shan has no children and no daughters, the Li family came from the countryside to Li Yong's sister Li Li's house to help work. Li Shan is a cheerful and generous woman, and she usually interacts with people first. Li Li is shy and introverted, and when she first arrived at the Li family, she often felt sorry for the Li family. She was worried that without Li Shan's guidance, she would not be able to adapt to her new family.
My sister and sister-in-law are like sisters.
This year, Li Yong was going to take the exam in the district, so he left for a long time. Li Shan likes to be lively on weekdays, and tries every way to make Li Li happy. Sometimes, he would learn to sing with the village troupe to make Li Li happy; Sometimes, he would take Li Li to the fields near the village to pick flowers and herbs and make beautiful garlands. Gradually, Li Li opened her heart, and her relationship with her sister-in-law was closer than that of her sisters.
They have very different personalities, but they both like to write songs as husband and wife. Li Shan often asks them questions, and Li Li also does the right thing. Once, Li Shan came up with a pair of leaves and birds, and Li Li came up with a pair:"Kingfisher herald"。Li Li's pair was novel and touching, and Li Shan laughed out loud when he saw it:"Flowers and branches spread a hundred birds' nests"。The scenes of the two blend together, revealing the mystery and charm of all things in heaven and earth.
Li Shan had a lively personality, and when he saw Li Li calmly answering, he couldn't help but think of a difficult thing. He looked around, and suddenly saw a stone mill by the courtyard wall, and a thought could not help but come to his mind:"Yin Tao has a small mouth, teeth like ferns, swallowing evil and spitting fine"。This preface describing the stone mill compares the stone mill to Yin Tao's small mouth, and connects the rotating stone mill with chewing, which skillfully expresses the connotation of the stone mill and captures the essence of the stone mill.
Li Li was taken aback when she heard this, her sensitive heart was struggling in the face of such a shocking couplet at this time. She meditated, but couldn't find the right tune. He was so depressed that he couldn't even take a few bites of food.
My sister finally got it right.
After dinner, Li Li went to the utility room to get the tools for hoeing the next day. She was sad and lost in thought. Suddenly, she saw the scales hanging on the wall and had an idea. He carefully studied the scale rod, shook it up and down, and played with the scale. Inspiration finally came, and he hurriedly told Li Shan that he had finally found the next link:"The wicker is thin, the stars are bright, and you know how light it is"。
Li Shan was surprised by this, because he didn't expect Li Li to come up with such a beautiful and expressive couplet. Comparing the balance to a star, and using the weight data to explain the role of the balance can be said to be very ingenious! Li Li is also happy to find such a wonderful couplet! Since then, Li Li's heart knot has been untied. He began to take the initiative to ask Li Shan for the tricks of couplets, and often created some neat words for the battle, which also opened Li Shan's eyes. In this way, the two of them come and go, and the knowledge of couplets becomes deeper and deeper, and visitors often can't help laughing.
Zeng Hong: Praise nature and promote positive energy.
Zeng Hong, who lives next door to the Li family, also likes couplets. He likes to travel around the world, sightseeing and water. Every time he came back from abroad, he would visit the Li family and Li Shan Li twice to talk about couplets.
Zeng Hong tried to use one word as the key to break the rhetorical trap of Li Shan and Li Shui. He will"The red leaves are burning red all over the ground, and the forests are dyed with bright sunshine"、"Dajiangdong goes to Jiaolong Array, 10,000 acres of cypress streams"and other contrasting artistic conceptions in the first place, the magnificence of nature and the rhythm of life coexist.
He laughs and says that he has traveled the world and seen too many miracles. A good couple should have a lot of natural elements, not just an idyllic setting. The couple he makes often shocks and moves Li Shan and Li Li, as if they can go beyond the ordinary and go straight to the depths of their hearts. The three of them have their own characteristics and strengths. They go back and forth, sometimes bickering, sometimes marveling, turning the otherwise dreary countryside into a poetic paradise.
Parrett testified for the village.
After Li Yong graduated from high school, Li Shan finally became pregnant. In the same year, Zeng Hong got married. The three families have experienced many happy events and are increasingly participating in the cultural and recreational activities of the party organization.
They decorate the walls, lintels, and window sills of their houses, and hang beautiful verses everywhere. Peach blossoms, plum trees, ponds, rice fields, chickens and ducks. Pastoral landscapes of all sorts are recorded in these couplets. Li Shan and Li Li often observe the idyllic scenery in their backyard, weaving couplets from materials. They use witty language to depict the world, and their imagination flashes in a limited space.
These poems bear witness to the passage of time and record the laughter and tears of the villagers. The youngest son of the Li family grew up**, and the Zeng family married a new daughter-in-law...Spring goes to autumn, and the couplets on the wall silently show the bits and pieces of everything.
Many years later, the walls of the Li family collapsed, and Li Shan and Li Li grew old one after another. But these poems seem to be timeless, quietly showing the charm of transcending time and space. Whenever the villagers pass by these lintels and roofs, they feel as if they are walking through a poetic world and feeling the wisdom and humor of the ancients.
The couplet thus became part of the life of the peasants. It expresses the peasants' yearning for a better life and witnesses their ordinary and non-mediocre lives.
But is the couplet really a treasure of the Chinese nation? The answer is obvious. We can open the long river of history, listen to the stories behind the couplets, feel the infinite charm of the couplets, and learn the wisdom of the ancients!