Hello, the four joys in life refer to meeting the rain after a long drought, meeting an old friend in another country, and being the top scholar on the wedding night, while the corresponding four sorrows in life refer to the children who have lost their father, widowed in middle age, the only child in the elderly and have no mentor.

The four happy events in ancient times came from Hong Mai's "Rong Zhai's Essays, Four Writings, Eight Proud and Frustrated Poems" in the Southern Song Dynasty: "After a long drought, I met an old friend and met an old friend in another country; On the wedding night, do it for the first time. " Feng Ming's magnum "Awakening the World" Volume II: It is better to meet an old friend in another country after a long drought. According to Zhu Guozhen's "Architectural Essays in the Ming Dynasty" and other books, there was a man named Wang Shunan during Chenghua, who added two words before each sentence, which became: Ten years of drought, Wan Li met an old friend in another country. The monk's wedding night, the instructor waited forno. 1. The revised poem "Four Happiness" emphasized happiness and joy with certain figures and characters, pushed the meaning of happiness to the extreme, produced humorous new ideas and effects, and made people clap their hands and say it was wonderful.

In Mai's Four Poems of Rong Zhai: Proud and Frustrated, he summed up "the mourning of the widow, the general being captured by the enemy, falling out of favor with the tears of the ladies-in-waiting, and the heart of the son" as four sorrows. Whenever people think about this, they are not only sad, but also unspeakable.