On one occasion, Emperor Yongle asked Jie Jin to write an inscription on a finely crafted folding fan. When Jie Jin opened it, he found a landscape painting with artistic conception on the fan, which was created according to Liangzhou Ci, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. This poem is:
The Yellow River is getting farther and farther away, because it flows in the middle of the Yellow River, and Yumenguan is located on a lonely mountain. Why use the elegy of willow to complain about the delay of spring, old Yumenguan, a spring breeze is not blowing!
So Jie Jin wrote this poem on a fan and dedicated it to Emperor Yongle. Emperor Yongle was about to nod when he saw that poetry and painting brought out the best in each other. Suddenly, his brow wrinkled and he flew into a rage. Originally, Jie Jin was negligent and put this poem? Between? This word is missing. The emperor dropped the folding fan, and Jie Jin was a little calm and calmly responded:? This is not Wang Zhihuan's "Liangzhou Ci", but another "Liangzhou Ci" I wrote, only one word short of Wang Zhihuan. Wang Zhihuan's Liangzhou Ci is actually a poem, but this one I wrote is worthy of the name? Words? . ? Immediately say:? The Yellow River is far away, with white clouds around it, and Wan Ren Mountain is an isolated city. Why complain about Qiangdi? Willow is spring breeze, Yumen Pass is not closed. ?
It turns out that there were no punctuation marks in ancient calligraphy, but this idea is not new. Jie Jin read vividly, cadence, although the emperor knew he was picky, but because Jie Jin can justify himself, he was also rejected.
[same effect]
Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, has a famous seven-character poem Qingming.
A drizzling rain falls like tears on the Mourning Day; The mourner's heart is going to break on his way.
Ask local people where to buy wine? The shepherd boy just laughed and didn't answer Xingshan Village.
With a slight change in punctuation, it can become a word:
During the Qingming Festival, there are many rains, and pedestrians are on the road, trying to break their souls.
Ask local people where to buy wine? The shepherd boy just laughed and didn't answer Xingshan Village.
[Intelligent thinking]
The same Tomb-Sweeping Day, without adding a word or subtracting a word, can make a set of movie scripts with time, place, scene and dialogue.
【 It rains in succession during the Qingming Festival. ], [on the road].
Pedestrian: (trying to kill the soul) Excuse me, where is the restaurant?
Shepherd boy: (pointing) Xinghua Village!
Can you find similar poems?
A 3-minute China story: Qiaonan Bookstore.
In the 1930s, there was a publishing house in Shanghai, which only calculated the manuscript fee according to the actual number of words, excluding punctuation. So, Mr. Lu Xun once sent a manuscript to this bookstore without paragraphs or punctuation. The bookstore had no choice but to write to Lu Xun. Please divide it into chapters and paragraphs, and add new punctuation marks. ? Lu Xun wrote back and said:? It is necessary for the author to punctuate the paragraph, so punctuation and spaces are still necessary, so punctuation and spaces must also be counted as words. ? The bookstore had to admit defeat.
[and so on]
Punctuation marks play a wonderful role in an article. Different punctuation marks sometimes produce completely opposite text effects.
There is a saying in Sun Li's famous short story Lotus Lake: You go, I won't stop you. What about home?
This is what the wife said the night before her husband went to the guerrillas to participate in the Anti-Japanese War. If you change the period of this sentence to a comma, the expression effect will be obviously different.
? You go, I won't stop you. What you do at home shows that your wife understands the righteousness.
? I won't stop you if you leave. What should I do at home? I will portray my wife as a backward woman who only cares about her family and won't let her husband take part in the war of resistance.
[Intelligent thinking]
Once upon a time, there was a very stingy rich man who wanted to hire a teacher for his son. He is a mean person, always mean to others. Everyone is reluctant to part. Only a young scholar gladly went and wrote a written evidence with the rich, which read:
You can have no chicken, duck, fish, rice noodles, vegetables and radishes. You can't afford it.
The rich man was very happy after seeing it. He thought he only needed a simple meal and didn't have to pay tuition. He thinks it's a big deal. By the end of the year, the scholar and the rich man had an argument and the two sides went to court. The magistrate asked the scholar to read the written evidence.
After reading the scholar, the rich man was dumbfounded and wanted to pay the scholar wages and meals.
How do scholars read it? Think about it!
Three minutes of China story and strange letters.
The famous French writer Hugo finished the manuscript of Les Miserables and sent it to the publishing house. There was no reply after a long time, so he wrote a letter to the publishing house. . The editor of the publishing house replied quickly. ! Editorial room? . When Hugo saw the letter, a stone fell to the ground. Sure enough, soon after, Les Miserables was published, which caused a sensation in the whole European literary world, and this strange letter with a punctuation mark as its content, also known as the shortest letter in the world, has been passed down to this day and is relished by future generations. Unique and clever use of punctuation, everything is self-evident, the content is implicit, the expression is accurate and far-reaching.
[Punctuated Biography]
An American psychologist named Barca once received a special autobiography at a young man's party with only three punctuation marks on it: () (! )(。 )。 The autobiographer explained in dismay: I went on a rampage and ended up with a sad sigh, and finally ended up with regret. Barcelona laughed off the explanation and wrote an autobiography with three punctuation marks: (,) (? )。 He enthusiastically encouraged this self-destructive and dejected young man: youth is a post station where life stops temporarily. The road is long, and there is no end to hope. Isn't it true that the prodigal son doesn't change money back?
China story joke in 3 minutes? Bamboo shoots?
Ji Xiaolan was a bachelor of imperial academy in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. He is not only proficient in classics and history, but also good at poetry and writing, and he is humorous by nature. He looks down on powerful people and often satirizes them with some unexpected tricks.
On one occasion, the then minister, Xiao Shenyang, built a newsstand in the back garden of his mansion in order to be arty, and asked Ji Xiaolan to inscribe it. Ji Xiaolan has always resented the flattery, cunning and insatiable greed of Xiao Shenyang, and he knew that his sons and Xiao Shenyang were playboys without any ink, so he deliberately teased them and wrote them down? Bamboo shoots? Two words. Shenyang saw it and thought it was Ji Xiaolan who took it? Bamboo shoots? The meaning of "green bamboo" is exactly the same as the lush forest leaves around the newsstand. Xiao Shenyang praised the wonderful and ingenious skills of these two words, and asked craftsmen to carve them carefully and then hang them on the bookstall.
A few days later, Emperor Qianlong came to Little Shenyang Palace and visited his newly-built bookstore. Little Shenyang looked at the plaque on the pavilion with great interest, praised it and told the emperor that it was written by Ji Xiaolan. Emperor Qianlong looked up at the two big characters on the plaque and suddenly smiled.
And Xiao Shenyang laughed inexplicably. Qianlong held back his laughter and pointed to the two words and said, Ai Qing, this is Ji laughing at you! ? Small Shenyang looked up again. Gan Long explained:? Zhu Lei, open it, don't you? Bamboo straw bag? Meaning? Ji Shixue is laughing at you. ? Little Shenyang was so angry that they couldn't attack any more.
[Homogeneous ratio]
In fact, not only Shenyang was teased by Ji Xiaolan, but also Emperor Qianlong had suffered from Yabakui. According to legend, one day Ji Xiaolan and Gan Long talked about riddles. Qianlong stretched out a foot from the golden treasure seat and said, people say that Ai Qing is brilliant, so I can be mysterious. Can you guess? Ji Xiaolan deadpan said: I have guessed, but please forgive my innocence forever. ? Qianlong agreed, and Ji Xiaolan said? It is a hoof. ? Qianlong was furious, Ji Xiaolan explained? Foot, foot also. Long live the emperor. The word hoof is a combination of foot and emperor. So only long live the feet of the emperor. ? Emperor Qianlong heard that it was reasonable and had to ignore it.
[Intelligent thinking]
There was a folk song at the end of Han Dynasty? Senecio scandens, he is green, 10 days, not born? It is a prophecy that Dong Zhuo, a traitor, usurped the throne when Emperor Han offered the throne, and it did not come to a good end. Can you understand the beauty of these four folk songs?
Three minutes China story Tang Dynasty? Red sturgeon?
Yellow River carp is a famous delicacy at banquets in the Central Plains, but it is clearly stipulated in the Tang Law that carp should be called? Red sturgeon? Predation is strictly prohibited; If you are caught accidentally, you must let people go immediately, and the seller has to play 60 boards.
Why did the rulers of the Tang Dynasty forbid people to taste this delicious food? This reflects the unique taboo system in the history of China. ? Is the whole world a land of kings? Territory, is it Wang Chen? Monarchs and elders have absolute patent rights to names, and no one can call them by their first names. If you want to call them, you must also use other methods. This is called taboo.
According to Zuo Zhuan and other historical records, taboos originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty and gradually improved in the Qin and Han Dynasties. 1975 at the end, among the bamboo slips unearthed in Shuihudi, Yunmeng County, Hubei Province, are there any? To correct people's minds? 、? Not the heart of the masses? Wait for the text message. In the middle? End? It should be? Positive? This is obviously because the name of Qin Shihuang is taboo? Politics? Then I changed it.
After the Three Kingdoms, people should not only avoid words with the same name as monarchs and elders, but also avoid words with the same or similar pronunciation, called? Don't like names? .
In the Tang and Song Dynasties, taboos were even stricter. Not only is the name of the current emperor not allowed to be desecrated, but even the temple name of the dead emperor should be taboo. In the Qing Dynasty, especially in Hegan era, the strictness of taboos reached its peak, and violating taboos became an important sentencing basis in the literary prison.
The taboo system of feudal dynasty was wide and dense, wide and strict, which was different according to political needs. But as far as taboo is concerned, there are roughly three ways: changing words, empty word, and missing pens.
Strict taboo system and taboo regulations constitute a special picture of China's feudal autocracy. In the Tang Dynasty, the royal family surnamed Li, according to the taboo system? Don't like names? Principles? Eat carp (fish)? , that is? Eat plums? . In the eyes of the rulers, isn't this big? Disrespect? And it was a blatant provocation against the Li dynasty, so there was a general order prohibiting carp fishing, and carp was called? Red sturgeon? . Throughout the Tang Dynasty, carp families were spared the trouble of cooking with a knife because of this imperial edict. They swim around in the river, majestic and unscrupulous, which makes other fish envy.
[full of fun]
Once upon a time, a scholar took his servant to Beijing to take an exam.
On the way, the scholar's hat was blown off by the wind. Knowing that the servant would pick it up when he walked behind, he ignored it and walked on. I don't know. When the servant saw it, he thought the master didn't know, so he quickly caught up with the luggage and was panting. Xianggong, your hat fell to the ground. ? As he spoke, he accidentally slipped and his luggage fell to the ground. The servant smirked and said to the scholar, Look, I accidentally landed. ?
The speaker had no intention, the listener had a heart, and the scholar was greatly unhappy after hearing it, because he didn't finish the exam, that is, he fell into Sun Shan. So, he told his servant again and again: from now on, if something falls on the ground, don't say it again. Landing? , hard to say? Reach the ground? ! Reach the ground? Harmonic? And then what? Which means high school Jinshi.
After listening to the scholar's words, the servant replied again and again: remember, remember. ?
They walked on until they came to a rugged mountain road. The scholar was very uneasy, for fear that things would be revealed and the servant would say something unlucky, so he reminded him from time to time. The servant patted his chest and promised: Don't worry, xianggong, this time it won't reach the ground anyway! ? One sentence makes the book angry to death.
[Intelligent thinking]
Liu Zongyuan, one of the eight masters in the Tang and Song Dynasties, wrote a sentence at the end of The Snake Catcher. Therefore, it is necessary for husband to observe people. ? One word is taboo. Replace it with another word. Do you know what word to change?