Yipin Tang

Chapter 585

After the Jinguang Lake Poetry Fair, Wang Zixin's literary talents have been recognized by everyone, and what's more, all the couplets he presented before were the best of the Spring Festival couplets. Of course, the five pennies are not easy to get.

On the contrary, when Wang Xiang heard that he could get five pennies for making a couplet, he said it was a pity. The "Complete Collection of Spring Festival couplets" he gave to Lao Cheng contained thousands of couplets.

Of course, this is just thinking about it. If you really want to take out the "Complete Spring Festival Couplets", it is impossible for the owner of the stall to spend so much money. Reduced to the streets to sell Spring Festival couplets for a living.

However, he was quite interested in the activities of stall owners, and wanted to see if anyone could make classic Spring Festival couplets comparable to those in "The Complete Collection of Spring Festival Couplets".

The price of Wuguan qian is really not low, and on the first day of the new year, everyone wanted to be lively and festive. After a while, a young scholar tried to make a pair of couplets for the Spring Festival.

The common people applauded one after another just after finishing the work, and the young scholar who made the Spring Festival couplets was quite proud of hearing the applause.

After Wang Xiang listened to it, he shook his head and smiled slightly. This young scholar is indeed talented, and he wrote two good poems in a short time, but it is a pity that the poems are good poems, but not a good Spring Festival couplet.

The most important thing about Spring Festival couplets is that the content is festive and auspicious. On the contrary, they do not have high requirements for rhetoric and rhymes.The scholar obviously composed the Spring Festival couplets according to the standard of poetry, the rhetoric is gorgeous, and the antithesis is also very neat, but Wang Xiang heard that these are just two lines of poems describing the winter scenery, and there is no festive and auspicious meaning in them.

Sure enough, the people onlookers were watching the excitement, but the hawker selling Spring Festival couplets was different. As soon as he heard it, he heard that the Spring Festival couplets made by the scholar did not meet the requirements, so he shook his head immediately.

Seeing the owner of the stall shaking his head, the scholar immediately became unhappy, everyone applauded, and he himself felt quite satisfied, what do you mean by shaking his head?
The owner of the stall saw the scholar's displeasure, and smiled wryly, "It's not that this young master did a bad job, it's just..."

"Just what?" The young scholar snorted disdainfully. Could it be possible that a hawker selling Spring Festival couplets can still compare with himself, let's see what he can say.

Although he didn't want to offend the young scholar, the peddler couldn't waste the five pennies, so he could only bite the bullet and say, "It's just...it's just the Spring Festival couplets made by the young master, I don't understand."

What?do not understand?

Everyone was stunned for a moment and burst into laughter, and the young scholar was also amused by the reason given by the stall owner.

You can't understand that's why it's bad?You don't understand why you don't want to pay the five guan?If you don't understand, I can explain it to you!
The crowd was so excited that the owner of the stall could only humbly listen to the young scholar explain the meaning of the two spring couplets he made.

At first, I just didn’t understand the couplets made by the scholar because I didn’t understand them. After listening to his explanation and understanding the meaning, I didn’t want to accept it anymore.

"How, do you understand now?" The scholar didn't notice the expression on the stall owner's face, and asked triumphantly.

The owner of the stall smiled bitterly and said, "Understood."

"It's good if you understand. Bring me the five pennies. Today, I came up with these two poems because of a burst of inspiration. It's a good deal for you."

Seeing the scholar's outstretched right hand, the owner of the stall said inwardly: You big-headed ghost, what I want are Spring Festival couplets. The things you wrote are simply incomprehensible to ordinary people, and what's more, from your explanation, what you wrote is snow scenes at all. It's a shit about Spring Festival couplets, if I want such poems, why would I ask you? There are so many in this collection of poems, where do I need five pennies?

Seeing that the owner of the stall did not pay the money, the scholar suddenly became impatient, frowned and was about to speak, a woman in the crowd couldn't help but said: "Don't force others, your two poems are not at all The Spring Festival couplets he wanted."

As soon as the words came out, everyone turned their heads to look at the woman who spoke, Wang Xiang also looked at her curiously, and his eyes lit up immediately.

Standing in the crowd and talking was a woman dressed in men's clothes. Although she was dressed in men's clothes, she couldn't hide her beauty at all. There was a cute little maid beside the woman. She looked younger than Little Lolita. Hearing The woman opened her mouth and the little maid hurriedly said, "Little...Master, let's go back."

The woman shook the folding fan in her hand and said calmly: "What are you going back for, we just came out for a while."

"But...but..." The little girl didn't come out for a long time.

The scholar who made the Spring Festival couplets just now turned his head and frowned when he heard that some people had doubts about the Spring Festival couplets he made, "This brother said that the Spring Festival couplets I made were not the ones he wanted, so may I ask what kind of Spring Festival couplets he wanted?" .”

"That's right, the poems written by this young master are not bad, they are even better than the artistic conception of these couplets." People around also spoke out one after another.

Wang Xiang sweated in his heart, did all the ancients have face blindness?Such an obvious woman disguised as a man can't be seen, what else can I call... Xiongtai.

Seeing that everyone was more anxious about the face of the young lady and the little maid, the woman didn't care at all, she leisurely shook the folding fan in her hand and said: "I didn't say that the poem written by this young master is not good, I It’s just that the poems he made were not the Spring Festival couplets that this uncle wanted, or that the poems he made were not Spring Festival couplets at all, but only two lines of poems.”

After hearing the woman's words, some people already understood a little bit, but the young scholar still didn't think there was anything wrong with what he made, and asked, "Why do you say that what I made is not a Spring Festival couplet?"

The woman asked calmly, "Then what are Spring Festival couplets?"

The young scholar sneered and blurted out, "Isn't Spring Festival couplets just..."

Seeing him suddenly stop, the woman asked with a smile, "What is it?"

"Yes..." The young scholar finally lost his composure, and only focused on arguing just now. He really didn't know what Spring Festival couplets were, and only regarded them as Spring Festival couplets and poetry.

Sure enough, seeing that he couldn't explain why, the woman smiled and said: "The Spring Festival couplets were newly created by Prince Jiayuan last year to replace the original peach charms. Although the Spring Festival couplets also pay attention to neatness, it is not the most important thing." As for rhetoric, you don’t need to deliberately make it esoteric, the two lines of your poems that ordinary people can’t understand, how can they be used as Spring Festival couplets?”

Without waiting for the scholar to argue, the woman continued: "Besides, Spring Festival couplets are used instead of peach charms during the New Year, so they should be festive and auspicious. The two lines of poems you wrote just now are just descriptions of snow scenes, and have nothing to do with festive and auspicious. What people want are Spring Festival couplets. You It’s a snow scene poem, why should they give you five pennies?”

(End of this chapter)