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Emperor Qianlong sat on the throne, took up the pen and wrote the couplet "All rats are kings", and then looked up at the ministers with a smile. The ministers looked at each other, but no one responded.
At this time, Ji Xiaolan stepped forward and respectfully presented the upper and lower links, and the entire hall was instantly quiet, and even the sound of needles falling on the ground could be heard. After a brief silence, Qianlong burst into laughter and praised the ingenious couplet.
All the Wenchen also admired and applauded. So, what did Ji Xiaolan say?
How to solve the most challenging lantern riddle in history? Every Spring Festival, the capital will design a series of interesting lantern riddles for the emperor and officials to enjoy during the Lantern Festival. These riddles are of moderate difficulty and are designed to test wits and ingenuity.
One year, the last riddle was very tricky: "It is not black, nor white, nor red or yellow, but it resembles a fox, a wolf, a cat, or a dog, and does not resemble a domestic animal or a wild animal."
The next link has been determined, but the mystery of the horizontal batch has never been reached, which makes all the talents of the DPRK and China very confused.
When Emperor Qianlong visited the Lantern Festival, he failed to unravel the last horizontal batch and decided to test Ji Xiaolan.
Ji Xiaolan sat in front of the lantern riddle and pondered. He first carefully reviewed every word of Shanglian, and then repeatedly pondered and scrutinized it in the depths of his heart. I saw that the upper couplet describes an animal, which is neither a poultry nor a beast, neither black nor white nor reddish-yellow, and morphologically resembles a fox, wolf, cat, or dog.
Ji Xiaolan integrated these characteristics in her heart, and her thinking began to become active.
He slowly opened his eyes, as if he had realized something. Ji Xiaolan got up and walked back and forth in the corridor, sorting out her inferences in her mind as she walked.
At this time, there was a look of adoration on his face, and it turned out that he already knew it. So, Ji Xiaolan returned to the lantern riddle and added the word "wolf" horizontally.
Emperor Qianlong was pleasantly surprised to praise Ji Xiangguo's wonderful pair, saying that he had tried to let the ministers solve this riddle without success, and when he saw Ji Xiangguo's answer tonight, he felt that he was really worthy of his reputation, and he was very appreciative.
Since then, Ji Xiaolan's name has overshadowed other courtiers, and this wonderful story must be told, whether in the anecdotes of the court or in folk legends. This is also one of the most well-known lantern riddles of the Qianlong Dynasty.
Whenever the Spring Festival comes, people mention this story and are full of praise for Ji Xiaolan's intelligence.
Ji Xiaolan, a young talent with extraordinary talent and wisdom, although his appearance is mediocre, he has endless dreams and hopes. Suffering from vision problems since childhood, he has been mired in deep self-doubt and low self-esteem, and longs to win the recognition and respect of the world through his knowledge and efforts.
Ji Xiaolan was very persistent in the pursuit of learning, and he often studied ancient documents to improve his literary accomplishment. His guessing skills are excellent, and he is even more talented when it comes to creating couplets.
However, because he was not appreciated and reused by the emperor, his talents had nowhere to be displayed, which made him feel distressed.
He heard that the emperor liked to chant poems and make riddles, so he changed his identity and mixed in a couplet that stumped everyone when they were making lantern riddles, hoping to attract the emperor's attention.
The upper and lower couplets of this couplet were designed by him after careful consideration, and the sentence structure is novel and the meaning is profound. When the emperor saw it, it was really difficult to come up with the next couplet, so he anxiously called the guards and asked who wrote this couplet!
The emperor heard about Ji Xiaolan's talent and immediately sent someone to invite him. After the two talked, the emperor was full of praise for Ji Xiaolan's talent, and since then he has a high status in the emperor's heart.
Ji Xiaolan has had an amazing talent since she was a child, once a friend of her father came to visit, and while her father was away, he came up with a pair to test him, and Ji Xiaolan coped with it easily and completed a masterpiece.
In the process of studying, the teacher often tested Ji Xiaolan with couplets, but he always coped with it easily, which was amazing. Ji Xiaolan's writing is outstanding, and the creation of couplets is even more handy, so she is known as a "genius".
When Emperor Qianlong was enjoying the snow in the imperial garden, on a whim, he blurted out a poetic sentence, but he couldn't pick up the next sentence. Seeing this, Ji Xiaolan quickly pinched up a snowball, aimed at the plum blossom bush and threw it hard, using this clever hint to remind the emperor that he could start with the plum blossoms.
got Ji Xiaolan's point, Emperor Qianlong suddenly realized and successfully made the second half of the sentence, which was amazing.
He won the favor of the Qianlong Emperor with his outstanding intellect and gentle character, paving the way for him in his official career. Ji Xiaolan's talent was unmatched in the Hanlin Academy, and his extensive knowledge and profound scholarship made him familiar with classical literature and historical classics.
At a banquet of Emperor Qianlong, the ministers chanted poems against each other. The allusion cited by one of the ministers caused everyone to think deeply, and no one could answer it immediately.
However, Ji Xiaolan did not hesitate to report the source of the allusion, which made everyone present look at him with admiration and express their sincere admiration for his knowledge.
Ji Xiaolan is proficient in ancient books, and her own literary creations are also exquisite. During the festive season, the Hanlin Academy would collectively create some congratulatory messages to send to the emperor. Ji Xiaolan's congratulatory messages are always novel and full of profound meaning, which often makes Emperor Qianlong full of praise.
Even during the Dragon Boat Festival, Emperor Qianlong also hung Ji Xiaolan's congratulatory message on the wall of the main hall as a sign of commendation.
His poems are majestic and profound, making people feel as if they are in the middle of it. The Hanlin Academy once held a poetry conference, and Ji Xiaolan's improvised poem deeply moved everyone, and even Emperor Qianlong couldn't help but praise: "Wonderful pen gives birth to flowers, wonderful pen gives birth to flowers!"
Since then, whenever an important event is held in the Hanlin Academy, the emperor will ask Ji Xiaolan to present a poem to add to the festive atmosphere.
This young genius Ji Xiaolan, his style and conduct are very admirable. His profound knowledge, exquisite writing, and warm personality like jade made him stand out in the Hanlin Academy and became a confidant of Emperor Qianlong.
However, what really left a deep impression on the emperor's heart was the couplet he made that has been passed down through the ages.
The talented Ji Xiaolan is deeply loved by the emperor for her witty and humorous answers. From an unknown scholar to the emperor's personal attendant, the emperor praised his talent and often played lantern riddle games with him.
At first, the emperor could still be slightly better, but Ji Xiaolan quickly mastered the emperor's tricks, and he could always give clever answers in an instant, which made the emperor look at him with admiration.
One day, the emperor wanted to frustrate Ji Xiaolan's spirit, so he came up with a seemingly simple but actually hidden couplet: "No matter how big or small a mouse is, he can be called an old man." This coupling subtly changes the use of the word "rat" in our daily lives, which is quite ingenious.
The emperor waited expectantly, wanting to see Ji Xiaolan make a fool of himself.
Ji Xiaolan frowned, thinking about the meaning of this uplink. Although it is literally simple, it is not easy to find a perfect downlink. When the emperor was about to celebrate his victory, Ji Xiaolan's eyes suddenly fell on a parrot on the edge of the hall.
He opened his mouth and said, "Parrots are male and female, and they are all called brothers!" ”
In ancient times, parrots were collectively referred to as "parrot brothers", and Ji Xiaolan wittily grasped this point, cleverly echoing the "big and small" of Shanglian, and gave an unexpected answer.
When the emperor looked at the pair, he couldn't help but admire Ji Xiaolan's intelligence, Ji Xiaolan's keen observation and excellent language talent once again impressed the emperor, and also made other ministers look at him with admiration.
However, it is a pity that although Ji Xiaolan is only eight years old, her life is not smooth.
Ji Xiaolan, who was devastated by fate and whose talents were buried, Ji Xiaolan has experienced a rough life in this life. When he was young, he was named a "talented man" because of his outstanding literary talent, and was greatly appreciated by Emperor Qianlong.
He was summoned by Qianlong many times to enter the palace to write poems with the emperor, and was deeply loved by Qianlong. However, Ji Xiaolan has never been able to get rid of the identity of a "musician" and cannot really gain Qianlong's trust and reuse.
Maybe in Qianlong's heart, Ji Xiaolan is just a talented literati and ink writer, and he can get along with him in his spare time, but he can't take him into the court as an official! Although Qianlong later invited him to participate in the compilation of the Siku Quanshu, a huge academic project, this was only to exploit his literary talents, not to value his political views.
Although Ji Xiaolan lived a privileged life under Qianlong's support, he always understood that his position in Qianlong's heart had never changed substantially. With the passage of time, Qianlong's ** tendency became more and more obvious, and he no longer attached as much importance to the advice of the literati as before.
Although Ji Xiaolan was valued by Qianlong, he was not really relied on by the emperor in his life.
Qianlong admired Ji Xiaolan's literary brilliance, but did not think that he was capable of performing the duties of a courtier. Perhaps because of this regret, Ji Xiaolan devoted herself to word games and literary creation in her later years.
Ji Xiaolan left behind many interesting riddles and word games, and although his life was full of challenges, he always adhered to integrity and integrity, and also taught his children and grandchildren by example.
It can be said that he was a classical genius who was still full of love for literature even in difficult times.
In order to remember Ji Xiaolan's great achievements, the film and television industry deliberately put his deeds on the screen! In the TV series "Iron Tooth and Bronze Tooth Ji Xiaolan" around the turn of the millennium, Ji Xiaolan's image was portrayed very distinctly, which caused a wide range of social repercussions.
According to Qianlong's evaluation, Ji Xiaolan is an extremely diligent and studious person, and is good at meeting friends with literature. Regrettably, his political ambitions failed to materialize. However, his determination to pursue scholarship and literature was unwavering.
Ji Xiaolan's writings have had a profound impact on later generations and are an important cultural heritage treasured by future generations.