What does it mean for a pear flower to press a begonia, and a pear to press a begonia

A pear blossom pressed begonia comes from a Chinese poem, is a poem in a folk tale, which is used from Yuan Zhen's poem "Two Songs in White Clothes".

The "Pear Blossom Pressed Elephant Bed" is used to tease an elderly husband to marry a younger wife.

The original text is as follows: Eighteen brides and eighty langs, with pale hair and red makeup. The mandarin ducks are made into a double night, and a pear flower presses the begonia.

"A tree of pear flowers pressed begonia" is widely seen in the Ming Dynasty so far notes ** folk paragraphs, the earliest version found so far from the Ming Dynasty Jiang Yikui's "Yaoshan Tang Waiji".

Historical allusions

Zhang Xian. The age difference between the two and Su Shi is forty-six years, and they are called year-old friends, but they actually have the love of master and apprentice. This point was later written by Su Shi to Zhang Xian's poems and sacrifices.

, are reflected.

However, in the face of his "mentor", Su Shi's attitude was not solemn at all, but he also joked about Zhang Xian's 85-year-old wife. In the end, it was misreported, and Su Shi wrote the famous sentence "A pear flower presses a begonia" to ridicule Zhang Xian.

Su Shi did write poems to ridicule Zhang Xian, but he wrote another poem, called "Zhang Ziye Eighty-five Shangwen Buys a Concubine and Writes Ancient Orders to Write Poems". In this poem, Su Shi quoted a lot of allusions, while making fun of the "improper" Zhang Xian's old cow eating tender grass, and at the same time expressing his gratitude to him.

It is a poem written by Su Dongpo to ridicule Zhang Xian, Zhang Xian accepted an eighteen-year-old concubine at the age of eighty, pear blossom white, referring to the old Zhang Xian, begonia red, referring to the young concubine, is a euphemism for the old cow to eat tender grass.

This is Bai Juyi's verse. Eighteen brides and eighty langs, with pale hair and red makeup. The mandarin ducks are made into a double night, and a pear flower presses the begonia.

Meaning: to ridicule an elderly husband for marrying a younger wife. "A tree of pear flowers pressed begonia" is widely seen in the Ming Dynasty so far notes ** folk paragraphs, the earliest version found so far from the Ming Dynasty Jiang Yikui's "Yaoshan Tang Waiji".

It was not until the 80s of the 20th century that Su Shi wrote "a pear flower pressing begonia" to ridicule Zhang Xian. This statement is a conflation of folktales with historical facts. Su Shi did make peace with each other because of Zhang Xian's concubine, Su Shi wrote "Zhang Ziye's eighty-five years of Shangwen bought a concubine and wrote poems about the ancient order", Zhang Xian's poems have not been handed down.

Some people on the Internet regard "A Pear Blossom Pressing Begonia" as Su Shi's work to ridicule Zhang Xian's concubine, which is wrong. They all wrote poems to ridicule elderly husbands marrying wives, so in the process of circulation, the elegant original poems were replaced by more popular and straightforward folk jokes, so that many people mistakenly believed that they were true.

A pear flower pressed begonia" is also clear at a glance: the white-haired 80-year-old man Zhang Xian married an 18-year-old beautiful woman who was as young and beautiful as a begonia flower, and Su Shi took the opportunity to ridicule Zhang Xian's wedding night "The old cow eats tender grass".

1. A pear flower pressing a begonia refers to "the old cow eats tender grass". The pear blossoms are white, while the begonias are bright red and delicate, alluding to a white-haired old man marrying a young girl.

2. Source of allusions:

Zhang Xian (990-1078, Ziye), a famous poet of the Northern Song Dynasty, married an 18-year-old concubine at the age of 80.

At that time, Su Shi, who often sang poems and harmony with Zhang Xian, visited him with many friends and asked the old gentleman how he felt about the lack of this beautiful family, so Zhang Xian casually read: "I am eighty years old and eighteen, and Qing is a red face to talk about lead and argue that I have white hair." It is the same as the Qing upside down, only separated by a sixtieth in the middle. ”

The humorous Su Dongpo immediately sang a song: "Eighteen brides and eighty langs, pale hair and red makeup." The mandarin ducks are made into a double night, and a pear flower presses the begonia. ”

It's snowing! I remembered a poem about Su Dongpo, "A pear tree presses begonias".

Nowadays, this verse is commonly used as a famous phrase in praise of the snow scene. It is said that the background of Mr. Dongpo's writing of this poem is that Mr. Dongpo has an old friend Chencha, whose hair and beard are gray at his age, but he married a very young and beautiful concubine. So at the banquet on the wedding day, Su Dongpo wrote this poem to ridicule his friend for marrying a delicate little lady when he was old, delaying his youth.

This is also a beautiful mistake in the process of cultural transmission.