It's New Year's Day holiday, and it's a national holiday, but after New Year's Day, it's Chinese New Year. Speaking of Chinese New Year, we should talk about the culture of pasting couplets, which can be said to be a very distinctive traditional culture in China and unique in the world. The development of couplets in China also has its roots, mainly from the extension of poetic culture by the ancients, so many people think that couplets are no different from some poems.

The emperor went to inspect the scientific research site.

Now, when the China New Year comes, many families in our country will put up couplets on both sides of the door, with the aim of placing some good wishes. However, in ancient China, couplets were not only pasted on doors, but also an important way for literati to communicate with each other and show their talents. For example, you have seen the movie "Tong Pak Hu Dian Qiu Xiang" starring Stephen Chow, in which there are many scenes of couplets.

The most classic is Stephen Chow's performance of "Tang Bohu" and "Wang Ning", and there is a wonderful antithetical couplet contest among the touts around him. The content is not only wonderful, but also very neat. Both of them showed their talents, but in the end, Tang Bohu was better, and touts were so angry that they vomited blood, which showed how much the ancients valued couplets. This is not only an impromptu poem, but also an impromptu poem.

For example, there was an emperor in ancient times who liked talents very much. He often likes to visit privately in folk incognito, and then he likes to test the talents of folk scholars. This emperor is the famous emperor Qianlong. For example, once, when Emperor Qianlong visited the south of the Yangtze River, he just caught up with the local scientific research, which made Emperor Qianlong instantly stimulate his inner love for talents. Because he is very talented, he happily came to the research site to watch, and something happened at the research site.

Because after the exam, I don't know whether the examiner's ability is limited or whether the two candidates are really equal. After reading it for a long time, the examiner can't decide which one should be the first. At this moment, Gan Long just came over and the examiner used his quick wits when he saw it. He told Gan Long about it quickly and let him decide who will be the first. Such a request is in line with Gan Long's idea, because he wants to take this opportunity to test the candidates.

The emperor gave couplets to decide the outcome, and the candidates turned away after listening.

After that, Gan Long read the test papers written by the two candidates with the same strength. After reading it, Gan Long was very excited, because the articles written by these two people were really good. Undoubtedly, both of them are very talented people, and the examiner's dilemma is not unreasonable, because their articles are really hard to tell, but Gan Long has his own way, that is, the couplet play-offs. Then Gan Long smiled and said, OK, I was there.

Everyone agrees and is curious. What kind of couplets can the emperor make? So everyone is waiting quietly. Then, in everyone's expectation, Gan Long made a pair of online couplets, just five words, called "Yan Suochi Liu Tang". Hearing this network link, everyone immediately began to think about the answer, but while everyone was thinking hard, one of the candidates directly said: Your Majesty, this network link is very clever, and the students are incompetent. I will go first. After saying this, he was ready to turn around and leave.

Emperor: You are the top scholar!

Gan Long was shocked to hear such an answer. He didn't expect the candidate's answer to be so simple. When everyone was shocked, Gan Long stopped the candidate directly: Come back! This year's champion is you! Everyone is puzzled about this, but because it was sealed by the emperor, everyone has no objection, only congratulations. Then a wise man explained the practice of Qianlong, and everyone understood the mystery.

It turns out that this couplet made by Gan Long is not simple and has a source. From Chen Zisheng's Collection of Zhongzhou Caotang in Ming Dynasty. This couplet is also called "Jue" by later generations, which means that this couplet is very wonderful and incomparable. Speaking of which, many people will be curious. This couplet has only five words. Why is it difficult to match? In fact, these five words are very mysterious.

The mystery of couplets reflects Qianlong's love for culture.

First of all, the radicals of these five words just correspond to "golden wood, fire, water and earth", and the picture depicted is just beautiful. If you want to make a bottom line, you must have the same characteristics, so it is difficult. Later, people also found that these five words have the distinction between verbs and nouns, which did not mean to increase the difficulty. After hearing Gan Long's first sentence, the candidate immediately knew its origin. He knew he couldn't be perfect, so he had to quit and do it.

It can be seen from this incident that Emperor Qianlong was a veteran literary lover. In fact, it can be seen from the works he left to future generations that Gan Long wrote more than 40,000 poems in his life. Among the ancient emperors, his talent can be said to be one of the best, but strangely, although his works are many, few people praise him, and there are no classics. Therefore, many people ridicule Qianlong for writing poems, so to speak.

Although he can not shoot many of his own poems, he made great contributions to governing the country and making the people live and work in peace and contentment in the Qing Dynasty. Besides, he really loves talents. In writing poems, he also likes appreciation of cultural relics, especially ancient calligraphy and painting copybooks. If he is lucky enough to meet an original song, he can't put it down, such as Wang Xizhi's only original "It's sunny when it snows"

At that time, Wang Xizhi wrote only 28 words in this work, and every word was a classic. Because Emperor Qianlong couldn't put it down, he wrote 72 inscriptions, tens of thousands of words such as "reading and commenting" and "commenting" on the original work, and then stamped as many as 172 red seals. This photo,

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In the feudal society of China, Chang Si created a splendid ancient culture. Mao Zedong

From the above story, we can see that Gan Long is indeed a smart gentleman and a well-read person. I wonder who can make a complete couplet for the painting "Liu Tang in the Swallow Lock Pool"? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area, thank you!

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