Jingquan Mountain
This couplet looks simple at first glance, and it is also easy to match it, but if you look closely, you will find the secret, it is a palindrome couplet. Palindrome couplets are a difficult but very interesting type of couplets. They are written in the form of palindromes and can be read forward or backward. Not only does it not change its meaning, but it is also quite interesting.
This couplet hanging in the lobby of the passenger station has the same meaning when read from the beginning to the end and from the end to the beginning, but it is coherent and has its own artistic conception. Moreover, this couplet is not a simple palindrome couplet, but one of the more difficult ones. It requires not only smooth reading, but also consistency in reading from beginning to end and artistic conception.
Zhu Pingan raised his head and read the couplet, curling his lips slightly. Having enjoyed the convenience of the Internet, he could recall four or five couplets at once. What kind of difficult couplets have not been seen on the modern Internet? Even the couplet that is known as the most difficult couplet in the history cannot withstand the collective wisdom of netizens. Of course, he can also come up with a few original couplets for this couplet, without cheating, and his level is not bad.
"Well, start with the first couplet first. If you can't figure it out, take your horse away right away." The shop assistant who had finished registering at the counter walked up to Zhu Ping'an the first time, pointed at the first couplet, which was the Jingquan Mountain one, and urged him impatiently.
The shop assistant didn't believe that Zhu Ping'an could come up with this couplet at all.
"The mountain springs are quiet on the quiet spring mountain."
Zhu Ping'an looked up at the couplet and read it aloud.
Huh, I didn't expect that this country bumpkin could read. Many people in the lobby were surprised. Just now, Zhu Ping'an was able to recite the couplet given by the shop assistant at the door. Some people in the lobby thought that Zhu Ping'an might have just picked up something from others or heard it from others, but they were still surprised to see Zhu Ping'an read the couplet softly.
"Repeating something doesn't count as a couplet." The shop assistant said this first this time, and added, "What others have said doesn't count as a couplet either."
"You really think too much, I don't know what couplets others are talking about." Zhu Pingan glanced at the shop assistant and said lightly.
"You might have been eavesdropping at the door." The shop assistant looked Zhu Ping'an up and down with a strange look and said with a snort.
"Then what do you think we should do?" Zhu Ping'an asked calmly.
"I have a couplet here. I'll tell you, you can't repeat it." The shop assistant took out a delicate thin book. He opened the first page and began to read. In fact, there were only words on the first page, and there were only two or three couplets.
This time, the shop assistant learned from the lesson and did not leave Zhu Ping'an any chance of luck.
"The water in the clear pond is clear. This has been corrected, you can't use it anymore. There are two more: the red turban in the red tent and the red wine in the red crisp wine. You can't use them anymore. Well, start correcting them."
After reading it, the shop assistant began to urge Zhu Ping'an to write couplets.
"The spring on Jingquan Mountain is quiet, and the water in Qingshui Lake is clear." Zhu Ping'an smiled slightly and said the couplet.
"It doesn't count. It doesn't count. It's just a change of a word!"
The shop assistant's face turned black when he heard this. What the hell, just replace the word "pond" with "hu" and it becomes another couplet! Do you think I'm a pig? If this can be used as a couplet, then why do the people in the lobby have to worry so much? If it can be replaced with "wang", "bo", "jiang", "he" and so on, everyone can make this couplet! Then what's so difficult about it!
"Oh. Changing one word doesn't count." Zhu Ping'an nodded as if he had suddenly realized something, and then continued, "Then how about this, the springs on Jingquan Mountain are quiet. The water in Xiangshui Lake is loud."
"It doesn't even count if you change two words!"
The shop assistant's face darkened when he heard this, and he almost spit saliva on Zhu Ping'an's face in excitement! Nima just said that changing one word is not okay, but you changed two words, changing "pond" to "lake", and "clear" to "sound"! You also call it knowing how to write couplets. Get out of here quickly, so as not to embarrass yourself!
"Oh, changing two words doesn't count." Zhu Ping'an nodded again in sudden realization, and then continued calmly, "Then how about this, the springs on Jingquan Mountain are quiet, and the rocks on Xiangshi Mountain are loud."
Well
I just said that repetition is not okay, just change a word!
I said changing one word won’t work, so you change two words!
I say again that changing two words won’t work, so you change three words!
"Just now you mentioned Xiangshui Lake, and now you're talking about Xiangshi Mountain. You're making things up. There is no lake or mountain with such names!" The shop assistant's face almost turned into ash, and smoke was almost coming out of his nostrils. He was so angry that he was about to explode.
"On the outskirts of the capital, west of the Mutianyu Great Wall in Huairou, nearly 50 miles away from the county seat, there is a large canyon, dozens of miles in radius. In the valley there is a waterfall and a spring pool. At the source of the spring, the spring gushes and the sound of the water is like thunder. The sound of the flowing water can be heard from a thousand meters away, so it is named 'Xiangshui Lake'."
"In Hengxi Town, Xianju County, Taizhou, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there is a mountain with steep cliffs, hanging stone beams, crisscrossing gullies, gurgling streams, lush vegetation, singing birds and fragrant flowers. In the mountain there is a kind of hollow gravel ore that looks like a bell. It makes a sound when shaken, so it is named Xiangshi Mountain."
Zhu Ping'an looked at the shop assistant's dark face, smiled slightly, and in a calm but clear voice explained the geographical location and origin of Xiangshui Lake and Xiangshi Mountain one by one.
"Hey, Vincent, do you think what he said is true?" The well-dressed young man pushed the young man named Vincent next to him and asked casually.
"I don't know much about Xiangshi Mountain, but I have heard of Xiangshui Lake in the suburbs of Beijing. My family has a farm not far from it. My brother and I once used the lake water to make tea, and it tasted delicious." The boy named Wensheng looked at Zhu Ping'an and answered softly. He became more and more interested in the poor country boy in the hall who looked simple and honest. He was really extraordinary with his extensive knowledge and strong memory.
"Well, even if there are these two places, you are just taking shortcuts and it doesn't count!" The shop assistant was a little incoherent.
"Oh, I see." Zhu Ping'an said in almost the same tone as before, and then continued lightly, "Then what about this?"
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besides!
The shop assistant swallowed and looked at Zhu Pingan nervously.
Zhu Pingan ignored the shop assistant's nervousness, curled his lips slightly, and continued lightly, "On the Jingquan Mountain, the spring is quiet, and on the withered vines on the rock, the vines are withered. Is this the second line okay?"
Just after he finished speaking, Zhu Pingan continued to talk to himself, "Perhaps the artistic conception is a little disappointing, and the upper and lower couplets don't quite echo each other. What about this one? The spring on Jingquan Mountain is quiet, and the moon is bright on the shore. What do you think?"
After saying that, Zhu Ping'an looked at the shop assistant innocently and asked whether the couplet he had written was appropriate.
As for the shop assistant, he was already shocked to the point of being dazed. The corners of his mouth twitched as he wanted to say something, but he could not do anything except swallowing his saliva. He was completely stunned by the couplet that Zhu Ping'an had casually come up with.
Couplets can be written like this! (To be continued.)