Quiet Springs on the Mountain
At first glance, this couplet looks very simple, and it is easy to read it out, but if you look closely, you will find out the secret of it, which is a palindrome couplet. Huiwen couplet, is a very difficult but very interesting one in the couplet, it is written in the form of Huiwen couplet, can be read either smoothly, can also be read backwards. Not only is its meaning unchanged, but it is also quite interesting.
The couplet hanging in the lobby of the passenger station has the same meaning when read from the beginning to the back and from the back to the front, but it is coherent and creates its own mood. Moreover, this couplet is not a simple iambic pentameter couplet, it is one of the more difficult ones, which not only requires that it can be read from the beginning and from the back, but also requires that it be read from the beginning and from the back and from the front, which is consistent and has a meaning.
Zhu Pingan looked up after reading this couplet, slightly hooked the corner of his lips, once enjoyed the convenience of the network, he was able to recall four or five couplets at once. What kind of difficult couplets have not been seen on the modern network, that is, the couplet known as the first difficult couplet in the ancient times, also can not withstand the collective efforts of netizens. Of course this couplet, they can also original a few couplets to, do not need to hang, their level is not bad.
“Alas, you start with the first pair of couplets first, if you can’t get it right, hurry up and take your horse.” The shopkeeper who had finished registering at the counter was the first to walk over to Zhu Pingan, pointing at the first pair of couplets, which was the one for Jing Quan Mountain, and urging with an impatient face.
The shopkeeper simply did not believe that Zhu Pingan could read this couplet.
“The mountain springs on Jingquan Mountain are quiet.”
Zhu Pingan looked up at the couplet and read it softly.
Hehe, I didn’t expect this bumpkin to recognise words, many people in the lobby were a little surprised by this, just now Zhu Pingan was able to match the couplet from the shopkeeper at the door, some people in the lobby thought that Zhu Pingan might be picking up on the words and hearing them from hearsay, however, when they saw that Zhu Pingan read the couplet out in a soft voice, they were still a little surprised.
“Repeating it again does not count as a couplet.” The shop boy snatched the words out of his mouth this time, and added a sentence after it, “What others have said does not count as your couplet either.”
“You’re really overthinking this, it’s not like I know what others have said about couplets.” Zhu Pingan swept a glance at the shopkeeper. Indifferently, he said.
“It’s not possible that you eavesdropped at the door.” The shop fellow swept Zhu Pingan up and down with a strange look and said with a light hum.
“Then what do you say.” Zhu Pingan asked indifferently.
“I have the couplets out here, let me say it, you can’t repeat it.” The shop boy said and took out an exquisite thin book. Turning over the first page, he began to read, in fact, it was only the first page that had words, and there were only two or three next couplets.
This time, the shop chap had learnt from the lesson he had just learned, and did not leave Zhu Pingan with the slightest chance of getting lucky with his luck.
“Pond water is clear in the clear water pond. This is the one that’s already correct, you can’t use it anymore, there are two more, the red scarf in the red scarf tent, and the red wine in the red crispy wine, you can’t use them anymore. Well, you start pairing them.”
After reading, the shopkeeper began to urge Zhu Pingan to make the couplets.
“The mountain springs on Jingquan Mountain are quiet, and the water in Qingshui Lake is clear.” Zhu Pingan smiled faintly and spoke the couplet out.
“Doesn’t count. It doesn’t count, but it’s just a different word!”
The shopkeeper’s face went black when he heard this, this damn swapping the word “pond” for the word “lake” as another couplet! Do you think I’m a pig? If this can be used as a couplet, then the people in the lobby still need to worry so much, replace it with “wang”, “mooring”, “river”, “river” and so on, if it can be used, then the people in the lobby still need to worry so much. If you can use “wang”, “mooring”, “river”, “river” and so on, then everyone will be able to make this couplet! What’s so difficult about that?
“Oh. Changing a word doesn’t count.” Zhu Pingan nodded as if he had come to a realisation, then continued, “How about this, the mountain springs on Jingquan Mountain are quiet. The water in the ringing lake is ringing.”
“Changing two words doesn’t count!”
The shopkeeper sniffed, his face became even darker, and he was so excited that he almost sprayed Zhu Ping An’s face with saliva! Nima just said that changing one word won’t work, but now you’ve changed two words, changing the word “pond” to “lake”, and then changing the word “clear” to “ringing”! and “qing” for “响”! How can you call yourself a good couplet writer? Get out of here, don’t make me lose face!
“Oh, changing two words doesn’t count.” Zhu Pingan once again nodded with a dawning realisation, then faintly continued, “How about this, the mountain spring on the mountain of Jingquan is quiet, and the mountain stone in the mountain of Ringing Stone is ringing.”
Err.
Just now, I said that the repetition doesn’t work, so you change the word!
I said again that changing one word won’t work, so you change two words!
If I say two more words won’t work, you change three!
“Just now you said Ringing Water Lake, and now you’re saying Ringing Stone Mountain, you’re making it up, where is there a lake or mountain with such a name!” The shop chap’s face was almost turning into pot-bottom grey, smoke was almost spewing out of his nostrils, he was simply going to explode with anger.
“On the outskirts of the capital, west of the Mutianyu Great Wall in Huairou, nearly 50 miles from the county, there is a large canyon, dozens of miles in circumference, there is a waterfall spring pool in the valley, at the source of the spring, the spring gushes as if it were flowing, the water resounds as if it were thundering, and the ringing of the flowing water can be heard from a thousand metres away, so it gets its name, ‘Rattling Water Lake’. ”
“jiangsu zhejiang taizhou xianju county cross creek town, there is a mountain, the wall stands, stone beams hanging, gullies and ravines, gurgling streams, lush vegetation, birdsong and flowers, the mountain a kind of hollow gravel shaped like ringing bells in the ore, shaking the ringing sound and the name of the ringing stone mountain.”
Zhu Pingan looked at the shopkeeper’s black face and smiled faintly, his voice was calm yet clear as he told the geographic location and origin of the Rattling Lake and Rattling Stone Mountain.
“Hey, Wensheng, do you think what he said is true?” The teenager who was dressed in an unassuming manner, pushed the teenager called Wensheng beside him with his hand and casually asked.
“I’m not sure about the Ringing Stone Mountain, but this Ringing Water Lake on the outskirts of the capital is but heard of, my family has a farm, not far from it, I once used the lake water to boil tea with my elder brother, the taste is very beautiful.” The teenager called Wensheng looked at Zhu Pingan and replied softly. To the lobby this poor countryside boy who looked naive on the surface, more and more interested, knowledgeable, this teenager is really not ordinary.
“Erm, even if there really are these two places, you’re still speculating, it doesn’t count!” The shop boy was a bit incoherent.
“Oh, that’s so.” Zhu Pingan, in almost the same tone as the times just now, let out an oh and faintly continued, “What about this.”
Ah?
And!
The shopkeeper swallowed his saliva and looked at Zhu Pingan somewhat nervously.
Zhu Pingan ignored the shop fellow’s nervousness, slightly tickling the corner of his lips, he faintly continued, “The mountain spring on the mountain of Jingquan is quiet, and the rock vine by the withered vine rock is withered. Is this next couplet okay?”
Only after finishing, Zhu Pingan then said to himself, “Perhaps the meaning is a little unsatisfactory, the top and bottom lines don’t quite echo each other, how about this one, the mountain spring on the quiet spring mountain is quiet, and the moon is bright by the bright moon bank. What do you say?”
After saying that, Zhu Pingan then looked innocently at the shopkeeper, asking if his couplet was appropriate.
As for the shopkeeper, he was already shocked, the corners of his mouth twitching as he tried to say something, but he could not do anything but gulp, the whole person was shocked by Zhu Ping An’s off-the-cuff couplet and was dumbstruck as if he were a wooden chicken.
The couplet, unexpectedly can be corrected like this!
