This is a couplet, not an ancient poem.

It is a couplet of Tiegong Temple in Daming Lake, Jinan, Shandong Province (Tie Xuan, a sacrifice in Ming Dynasty). The author is unknown. Liu's couplets. Write about the beauty of Daming Lake-the lake is surrounded by lotus flowers and weeping willows on three sides; Half of the mountains in a city are reflected in the lake.

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"Jiangxi gifted scholar" Liu

There is a couplet on the telephone pole at the entrance of Daming Lake in Jinan City, Shandong Province: "Lotus flowers on four sides and willows on three sides, a city with mountains and a half city with lakes". This couplet just sums up the scenic features of Jinan and attracts a large number of tourists. The author of this couplet is Liu, who is known as "a gifted scholar in Jiangxi".

Liu (1760? 1830), the word Chengmu, No. Jinmen people are from Shiguanquan Village, Chishan Township, Shangli County, Pingxiang City. In the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong (1789), the third scholar in No.1 Middle School (exploring flowers) was edited by the Hanlin Academy. Qianlong fifty-six years (179 1), promoted to bachelor of imperial academy. Later, he served as imperial academy's wine waiter, minister of Taichang Hall, bachelor of cabinet, right assistant minister of Ministry of War, right assistant minister of Ministry of Housing and right assistant minister of official department. In the meantime, he served as a political scholar in Guangxi, Shandong, Zhejiang and other provinces, and served as an examiner after obtaining the provincial examinations in Hubei, Shandong and Jiangnan provinces. Emperor Qianlong appreciated him very much and called him "a great instrument in Jiangxi".

Liu Caisi is agile, eloquent and extraordinary in writing. There are many stories that he improvises and talks eloquently among Pingxiang people.

When Liu was a teenager, he was a famous child prodigy in the village. One spring, an old man who knows a lot about literature and ink saw Liu passing by the field. He said, "Tie the straw to the father and hold the child." That's right. It happened that a young girl was passing by with a basket of small bamboo shoots. Liu Ling had an idea and said to her, "The bamboo basket is full of bamboo shoots." . Everyone praised the wonderful. After Liu was admitted as a scholar, a family in the village downstairs married a daughter-in-law, and the guests were crowded, which was very lively. Master is over 60 years old, refreshed and holding hands. Because of fatigue, he had a heart attack and died. Unfortunately, from heaven, a happy event turned into a funeral. Seeing that the sedan chair of the new wife is coming, how to rewrite the couplet in front of the door? Scholars invited several batches, but all shook their heads and left one after another. It happened that Liu passed by, and the master asked him to make a couplet to save the scene. Gao Feng smiled, and Liu improvised and wrote an interesting new couplet for the family. Lian said, "Red marriage, white marriage, red and white marriage; Can't cry, can't laugh, can't laugh. " All the onlookers applauded.

In the old imperial examination, the third place in the imperial examination must be hand-picked by the emperor's court examination to decide the first place in the imperial examination. Liu Yuganlong was a scholar in fifty-four years (1789). When he came to the Golden Hall, his curiosity drove him to look around the Golden Hall. Unfortunately, the emperor saw it. The emperor said angrily, "What are you looking at? Huh? " Hearing this, Liu replied trembling, "I want to see the calligraphy and painting in the temple." The emperor said, "What calligraphy and painting?" Liu said, "The emperor doesn't believe in couplets, so I can recite them." Hearing this, the emperor might as well let him recite it, and then said, "If you can recite the couplets in the temple, you will be excused." Liu recited all the couplets in the temple verbatim. The emperor said, "How do you have this memory?" Liu replied, "Your Majesty, the waning moon shines on the earth." It is said that Liu is ill at first sight. The emperor was overjoyed when he heard the news. He immediately recited couplets and asked, "Dong Qiming, Xi Chang Gung, and the Antarctic Beidou, who is the star picker?" Liu thought for a moment and said to himself, "Spring Peony, Summer Lotus, Autumn Chrysanthemum and Winter Plum Flower, I am Tanhualang." Your highness, the officials are not surprised. According to talent, Liu should have won the top prize in middle school, but this pair of meanings was originally designed for exploring flowers. "East, West, North and South" must be "Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter" and "Star Picking" must be "Flower Exploring Lang", so the emperor appointed Wei Liu Flower Exploring Lang.

Liu is an official in Beijing. As a bachelor student, he toured Mount Tai with Emperor Qianlong, climbed to the top and saw the mountains. He was very happy when he saw the momentum, and then rested in the temple at the top of the mountain. The abbot of the temple took advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to order the little novice monk to carry it into the giant plaque and ask for imperial books to increase his glory. Emperor Qianlong used to write poetry and calligraphy, and he liked to write poetry and calligraphy to leave traces. I was secretly glad to see the abbot asking for books. However, for that huge plaque, I was trapped in my thoughts and recited it over and over again, but I couldn't write it at last, and it was hot and uncomfortable for a while. Suddenly I saw Liu's grandfather on the left, and had a brainwave. He drew a few strokes on his palm with a pen, stretched out his palm and asked Liu, "What do you think?" Liu Jian's hand was empty. Knowing that Qianlong wanted to draft the manuscript himself, he refused to make any noise. He nodded frequently and pretended to recite, "Everything is perfect. Very good! When Qianlong heard these eight words, he was very ambitious, silently knowing and writing a book with great interest. I didn't expect the word "one" with "everything in a glance" to be raised by half a grid. If he continues to write, the layout of the word will be ugly. He soon stopped writing, and his hands could not help sweating. When Liu saw this scene, he was also very anxious and busy thinking about remedies. Just thinking about it, I suddenly saw Gan Long's hand stretched out again and said, "What book? Knowing that the emperor was doing the same trick again, Liu hurried forward and pretended to be serious, saying, "The small world is more beautiful and better. More unique! "Dry lung that would be relieved, according to liu, is similar. The temple on the top of Mount Tai still hangs this horizontal plaque of "Better in a Small World".

Liu's "humble rise" can really be described as "without roots in Liquan". He was born in a poor peasant family and lost his mother at the age of six. He likes studying and studies hard since he was a child. After winning the Jinshi, I went to Beijing to take the entrance examination. I only have 14 string of money, so I have to walk all the way. I can't walk any further until I rent a donkey. After many troubles, he became famous and returned to China. Pingxiang's father Yu Xing Xian Tang (now attached to Shiping Primary School) gave a banquet to celebrate his birthday. Liu loves Du Fu's poems very much and has collected three volumes of Du Fu's poems. In Book Proverbs Six, he said, "It is not an exaggeration to write words to convey the Tao, to use words to express China, and to spend money to hire." So his poems are also very simple. Because of his poems, Li Gongyi, the governor of Guangdong Province, did not expect that he was born in poverty, so he readily betrothed his daughter to him, leaving an eternal story. Liu is also very accomplished in calligraphy. He is proficient in block letters, running scripts and cursive scripts. Up to now, Shi Guanquan is still engraved with his Mo Bao. He is honest and self-controlled. When he lived in Nanchang in his later years, the governor of Jiangxi was greedy and full of misdeeds. Liu Fenghao said, "This money wears ears!" Never be more diligent and persistent with him in his studies. More than 20 years later, he finally completed the historical masterpiece Supplement to the History of the Five Dynasties, and also compiled 32 volumes of Collected Works of Cunqizhai, with 4 volumes attached, becoming a famous scholar who will remain immortal. In the first month of the 10th year of Daoguang (1830), Liu died of illness in Hangzhou and was buried in Nanchang. [Pingxiang Taiwan Affairs Office]