Marriage is a great event in life.

After all, for quite a few people, there is only one life, and it is this time that determines the next few decades. If you want to say that you don't value it, it is naturally unreasonable.

There are many customs in marriage, which vary from place to place, and quite a few customs have been handed down from distant ancient times.

For example, the day before marriage, two couples can't meet. One is that it is against etiquette to meet before marriage, and the other is that the woman will be laughed at and eager to become a monk.

But now, compared with the ancients, it is still better. After all, I just can't meet each other the day before I get married, but I have known each other since I got along and fell in love.

But in ancient marriages, men and women could not meet each other until the wedding night. Before that, it is not known what the other party was like. In fact, the combination of two people in ancient times was not the result of emotional development, but the engagement of two families in order to achieve a certain goal.

In this case, there is no need for men and women to meet at all. Whether the other party can satisfy himself or not, the result is doomed. Generally speaking, women are losers. After all, men were inferior to women at that time, and men were dissatisfied. They can also take concubines and divorce their wives, but women's dissatisfaction can only be endured silently.

Of course, there are also some women who are not satisfied with this arrangement and will come up with a satisfactory way to choose their husbands.

For example, you can meet a man before marriage, or you can throw a hydrangea to get married. Of course, some talented women will choose the way to test the man's talent directly.

Couplets.

In order to find a husband, a talented woman invented such a couplet: before the king came out, whoever was in charge declared to the public that whoever could make a perfect couplet would commit himself to the other party, and a talented woman made a wonderful couplet, which made the talented woman feel shy.

What is the bottom line? Let's take a look together.

Talented woman: The husband I am looking for doesn't have to step on colorful auspicious clouds to marry me, but he must be able to read couplets.

In ancient times, men were superior to women, and it was said that women without talents were virtuous. Such an absurd theory actually existed as truth in the minds of the ancients, but this does not mean that all women at that time would unswervingly abide by this theory, and there were not a few talented women.

Li Qingzhao, Shangguan Waner and Cai Wenji are all synonymous with women's talent. Of course, there are many talented women in history. Although I didn't leave a name, there are stories that have been handed down.

All women want to marry a husband, and talented women are no exception There is such a talented woman who is good at couplets. The husband she is looking for doesn't have to step on colorful auspicious clouds to marry her. He must know couplets, at least he can make a perfect couplet.

The top half of this talented woman is:

Who's in charge if the king doesn't stand up.

Obviously, literally, this is a conjunction. When the word "king" is added, it naturally becomes "Lord". In addition to the literal meaning, this sentence has its own connotation, which is to affirm the position of "Wang" in the ancient ruling class. Only Wang Ken can make a decision, otherwise there is only one title of king, and naturally no decision can be made.

When this pair of books was published, it really stumped a group of talents. Without some ink in your stomach, you can't make a couplet naturally. Although many people envy the talent of this talented woman, they have to stare blankly without the next book.

Wit: surfing the internet is not difficult. If you look at me, I will win the beauty.

There is a beautiful woman in the distance, looking for her husband with a couplet. The news spread quickly, but no one could tell her. Talented women just shake their heads and sigh. One day, a scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam happened to pass by and heard the story. He thought his literary talent was not bad, and he felt that there were no ambiguous couplets.

So I went to see how difficult it was to make this couplet. When the scholar saw the couplet made by talented women, he saw the originality of the couplet at a glance. Since it is a combination couplet, it is not enough to find two similar words.

Coincidentally, the scholar happened to see a cow grazing in the distance.

So the word he was looking for was "cow", and if the word "cow" didn't come out, it became "noon", so he made a bottom line:

The word noon is cow.

As soon as the bottom line came out, the people around cheered. When a talented woman learns that someone has set a bottom line, she will naturally ask the maid who set the bottom line what is the correct bottom line.

After receiving the servant's reply, the talented woman bowed her head shyly, because the couplet was quite good, and she was very satisfied that it was a literati couplet. She was naturally shy when she knew that her prince charming appeared.

Finally, they got married and lived a happy life.

Judy: I feel familiar with this talented woman's first couplet. The old monk Yao once said.

Zhu Yuanzhang founded the Ming Dynasty and passed the throne to his eldest grandson Zhu Yunwen before his death. However, he is really not cut out to be an emperor. Not long after he came to power, he couldn't wait to cut down the princes and directly pushed his uncles into the fire pit. Finally, Judy, the prince of Yan, raised the banner of resistance, deposed his emperor and stood on her own feet for the sake of becoming an ancestor in Ming Dynasty.

Judy used to be the prince of Yan and the fief of Yanjing. This place is very cold in winter. One day, Judy inspected the defense of Yanjing. When he saw the water drops on the wall freezing on the ground, he was very excited. He opened his mouth and sang a song:

It's freezing, and there's nothing in the water that doesn't turn into ice.

Since the master made the first part, as a subordinate, it is natural to keep up with the pace of the master and make the second part to express the pride of the master. But Judy waited for a long time and no one made the second film. The atmosphere was really embarrassing.

Just when Judy wanted to get angry, a monk suddenly said a bottom line, which surprised Judy, because this bottom line hit Judy's heart right, and this bottom line is:

The world is in chaos, and the people are in trouble. Who's in charge if the king doesn't come out?

It was really wonderful, and then things developed along Yao's bottom line. Prince Judy, under the banner of "Jingnan", wanted to be the master of the world and finally won the country successfully. Isn't that what the king said?

And Yao's couplets are naturally quoted by the talented women above, from which we have to gasp in admiration. China's culture is extensive and profound, and the couplet culture has a long history.

If you like couplets, you might as well try to connect a pair of "who is in charge if the king doesn't stand out" to see if your bottom line is better.

References:

Complete works of China's couplets.

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