Doggerel and Zhang doggerel-People often refer to some poems with slang and common sayings, regardless of level and level, so-called "not elegant" poems as doggerel. Why is it called a doggerel? It turns out that in the middle Tang Dynasty, there was a man named Zhang Ming, an oil painter, who loved to write such poems. In the Tang dynasty, when scholars were selected by poetry, his poems were really "unique" and attracted attention. For example, his "Ode to Snow" is quite famous: "The mountains and rivers are blurred, the wellhead is riddled with holes, and the yellow dog is white and the white dog is swollen." There is not a word of snow in Ode to Snow. Zhang Dayou seems to use his brain to write poems. However, the reason why Zhang Dayou broke this brand, and even this kind of poem was called doggerel after being named after him, is also an anecdote: one winter, a senior official went to pay homage to the ancestral temple, and just entered the hall, he saw a poem written on the newly painted zhaobi: "It's like a jade girl falling in Qiong Yao, and it will be fine one day, so that a broom strikes a broom and a shovel strikes a shovel." The official was furious and immediately ordered the left and right sides to find out that he was a poet, hell to pay. A tout report said, "Sir, there is no need to check-the official immediately ordered the arrest of Zhang Dayou. Zhang Dayou listened to the official's reprimand, bowed forward and said slowly, "My Lord, I really like to praise a few poems, but I will never write such poems no matter how poor I am. "Don't believe it, the younger one is willing to interview." Hearing this, the adults took a deep breath and decided to have a try. Just at that time, An Lushan soldiers were trapped in Nanyang County, so he took this as the topic and asked Zhang Zuohua to paint oil as a poem. Zhang Dayou is not humble. He blurted out, "A million thieves are trapped in Nanyang." Hearing this, the adults even said, "What a bold spirit! The first sentence is not ordinary! " Zhang Dayou said with a smile, "There is neither help nor food," the adult touched his beard and said, "This is not satisfactory. Read again. " Zhang Dayou immediately became the last three sentences in one go: "One day the city was broken, crying dad, crying mom!" These words are exactly the same as "those who make brooms make brooms and those who make shovels make shovels". Hearing this, everyone burst into laughter, even the big officials laughed, and finally let Zhang Dayou go. Zhang Dayou became famous from then on. The name "doggerel" has also spread like wildfire, and it has been passed down to this day.