Little Farmer Big Star

No one doubts that Li Fan can produce a good couplet, but if it is said that Li Fan can produce an eternal masterpiece, obviously no one will believe it.

And it’s a true “absolute” pair, which makes it even more impossible.

Even if the connection is the most extreme, it can still be solved. Unless it's a random couplet.

Lin Liangquan laughed and said, "You have a very strong tone. Come on, write it out. I want to see what kind of absolute it is."

Li Fan nodded and said: "Of course you can, but I want to say it first. If you can't answer it, don't come to me to ask for the answer. Because I really don't have the answer."

Lin Liangquan waved his hand and said: "Okay, okay, I won't ask you for the answer. You kid, hurry up and write it down. Why is a grown man so pretentious?"

"That's right," Xu Yicai also said, "We will never ask the little brother for the answer. Because it is impossible not to get it right. As long as what the little brother writes is a normal pair, we will definitely be able to get it right. The most we can do is use more It’s just time.”

Li Fan laughed and said, "Sure!"

After saying that, he no longer hesitated, came to the desk, picked up a brush at random, and started writing.

Lin Liangquan and Xu Yicai walked to Li Fan and looked at the paper Li Fan was writing on.

Li Fan's first character has been written, which is the character "smoke".

Lin Liangquan and Xu Yicai's eyes widened at the same time, and they couldn't help but praise in their hearts: "Good calligraphy! Good calligraphy! Regardless of the last couplet, this word is absolutely good. Without a lot of hard work, it is It will definitely not reach this level.”

The two of them were filled with admiration, but they didn't know that Li Fan had not shown his true calligraphy strength.

Everyone watching around stretched their necks to look at the paper written by Li Fan. They are also very curious, what kind of eternal absolute is Li Fan's "eternal absolute"?

Soon, Li Fan put down his pen and called it a day.

"Is this the end?" Lin Liangquan asked. He thought Li Fan's first couplet would be a long couplet, but he never thought it would be just five words.

How difficult can it be to correct a five-character first couplet?

When everyone around saw Li Fan put away his pen, they felt a little strange, although they still didn't know what the first couplet Li Fan wrote was? But I know it won't last long.

Although it is not true that the longer the couplet is, the more difficult it is to correct, but generally speaking, long couplets are indeed more difficult.

No matter what everyone thought, Li Fan finished writing the first couplet anyway. He made a gesture of invitation towards the first couplet he just wrote and said: "Yes, it's finished, it's these five words."

Lin Liangquan nodded and read out Li Fan's first couplet, "Smoke locks the willows in the pond!"

Xu Yicai picked up the first couplet written by Li Fan and hung it on the shelf so that everyone present could see it.

"Smoke locks pond willows!" After everyone at the scene saw it, they read it again in unison.

Their first impression was that the artistic conception was good. The second feeling is that this couplet is not difficult.

Lin Liangquan also laughed loudly and said: "You brag is so bragging that you still say that this first couplet is eternal and absolute. Look, I will give you the second couplet soon."

After saying that, I started thinking very fast in my mind, trying to come up with the second line in the shortest possible time.

Xu Yicai also smiled and shook his head. He also thought that this couplet was not difficult and he should be able to solve the second couplet soon. I also think that Li Fan was bragging just now.

However, the couplet is a good couplet. The quiet pond, surrounded by green willows and shrouded in smoke, is very artistic.

Next, Lin Liangquan was thinking, Xu Yicai was thinking, and everyone at the scene was also thinking. They all thought that this connection was not difficult, and they all wanted to come up with the answer as soon as possible.

However, the more I thought about it, the more confused my mind became. It felt like I was about to catch something, but I still couldn't.

"Yansuo Pondliu just uses the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth as radicals. What's so difficult about this? It should be very simple. Well, let me think about it. Well, no, no, no. Think about it..." Many people are thinking like this in their hearts... thinking...

Li Fan looked at the people around him who were deep in thought,

He smiled, walked to Su Qing's side, and whispered, "Let's go."

Su Qing was also thinking about the second couplet. When she heard Li Fan's words, she nodded, held Li Fan's arm, and asked as she walked: "Is this first couplet really that difficult?"

Li Fan smiled and said, "Didn't you think about the second line just now? Do you think it's good?"

Su Qing shook her head and said, "I don't know, it just feels like it's easy to get it right, but I just can't think of the second line."

Li Fan said: "If you can't think of it, don't think about it for now, so as not to hurt your nerves."

"Yes." Su Qing nodded obediently.

So, is this first couplet really as difficult as Li Fan said?

The answer is yes.

"Smoke Locks the Willow in the Pond" is one of the most famous couplets in the past life. It is absolutely no exaggeration to say that it will last forever.

Because, in the hundreds of years since the birth of this couplet, countless talented people, beauties, literati, poets, or dignitaries have all wanted to write this couplet.

However, until today, there has never been a satisfactory second line.

The first difficulty in this couplet is naturally the use of the five elements as radicals.

This may seem easy but is actually difficult. It seems easy to find five words with five elements as radicals connected into one sentence, but it is even more difficult to find them.

This is why Lin Liangquan and others feel like they are about to catch something, but they still can't catch it.

And this is not the most difficult part of this couplet.

The most difficult part is the artistic conception, which is a quiet pond surrounded by green willows and deeply shrouded in layers of smoke.

This is an artistic conception that is so wonderful that people are deeply fascinated by it.

It is precisely because of this artistic conception that countless literati and poets have been deeply fascinated by it for hundreds of years.

In these hundreds of years, many lower couplets have also been born.

For example: "Lamp hangs down the brocade threshold wave", "Zhuchao Haitian coconut", "Chufan Hanyu hook", "Zhuchuo river dam pine", "Yantao stem ground hook", "Autumn inlaid maple on the wall of the stream", etc. .

There are a lot of second lines in the opposite couplet, among which the four most famous lines are "Cannons Zhenhaicheng Tower", "Leng Shen Village Temple Bell", "Beacon Sales Ji Saihong" and "Peach Burning Jinjiang Embankment".

But even these four most famous second lines have many shortcomings.

Although the order of the five elements in "Pao Zhen Haicheng Tower" is exactly the same as that in the first couplet, the rhythm is irregular, and the artistic conception is too different, and it is not on the same level at all.

Although the artistic conception of "Deng Shen Village Temple Bell" and "Beacon Sales Ji Saihong" are acceptable, they can barely be called "wonderful". However, the five elements are uneven, the radical "earth" is too forced, and the levels are also different, making it difficult to call it a good pair.

Of course, people's wisdom is infinite, and over hundreds of years, a relatively perfect second couplet has been produced.

That is, "Peach Burning Jinjiang Embankment".

On the embankment of Jinjiang River, peach blossoms are in abundance and spring is full of joy.

If "Willows locked in smoke on the pond" is a beautiful picture of morning and dusk, then "Peach Burning Jinjiang Embankment" embodies the vibrant scene of spring.

One is gentle and graceful, the other is passionate and unrestrained, the two images complement each other.

In particular, the word "burn" is as wonderful as the word "lock".

It's just a pity that the overall artistic conception is still quite inferior.

In addition, "Peach Burning Jinjiang Embankment" also has other shortcomings.

"Jinjiang Embankment" is not a common noun, "Jinjiang" refers to "Jinjiang". The "pond" in the first couplet is a general reference and can be a pond anywhere.

Compared with the two, "Jinjiang Embankment" is undoubtedly much inferior.

In addition, there are also shortcomings in the oblique tone. The most pity is that the "jiang" in "Jinjiang" has a flat tone, and the flat tone of "tang" in the first couplet cannot be matched with the oblique tone.

To sum up, "Smoke locks pond willow" is truly an eternal absolute.

Of course, in the future, it is not known that someone will be able to create a perfect second line.

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