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Chapter 708

Chapter 708

A gleam of joy flashed in Meng Yuan's eyes, and he said, "Master Hou, if you don't have a second couplet, then you can't count this question."

"Yes, you don't even have a couplet, so you can't count."

Everyone in Taihe Academy reacted and agreed with the Tao one after another.

"Who stipulated that you can't publish the Shanglian without the Xialian?" Lin Xuan asked rhetorically.

"Forehead."

Everyone was stunned, as if there was no such rule.

Lu Qian gave a wry smile and said, "Let's stop here for the couplet competition. We lost."

"Master Lu, you can't admit defeat. Although there is no rule that there must be a second line for the first line, he doesn't have a second line himself. Time should be added."

"Yes, that's right. If there is another hour, someone of us will definitely be able to answer."

Others were not willing to admit defeat like this.

A trace of anger flashed across Lu Qian's face, and he said, "If that's the case, then you guys are right, I don't get involved anymore."

Others can be shameless in order to win, but he can't, especially on the couplets he likes.

Lin Xuan sneered and said, "Don't talk about giving you an hour, even if you give you 100 years, you won't be able to match, because this is an eternal absolute."

"what?"

"There must be a second line in this upper line, it's just that we didn't expect it, it can't be absolute."

"That's right, it's normal for some Shanglian to be confronted by people for several months or years. If you say it's absolute, is it absolute?"

Lin Xuan's words caused an uproar, and people questioned him aloud.

Lin Xuan shrugged his shoulders and didn't say anything else. In fact, the so-called Eternal Absolute, the people who came out of the Shanglian didn't know that their Shanglian would become the eternal Absolute.

But later generations have never been able to match, so it is called eternal absolute.

Lin Xuan can't tell them that no one has matched this Shanglian for thousands of years.

Meng Yuan said loudly: "Okay, it was not stipulated that there must be a second line before the first line. This game is indeed lost by us."

If only they and the people from Boyuan Academy were there, they could still play tricks, but with Li Shimin and all the ministers in the court, they didn't dare to go too far.

Among other things, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and others also have high prestige among scholars, and if their cheating stories get out, they will lose all face.

Seeing what Meng Yuan said, the rest of the Taihe Academy reluctantly sat down.

"Master Hou, let's start the second competition now." Meng Yuan said.

Pairs are relatively small, and even if they lose, the impact is not great. To put it bluntly, studying is for becoming an official.Can you still be an official?

As long as you win the latter, it doesn't matter if you lose the first game.

"Let's talk, what's the second match?" Lin Xuan asked.

"Compare poetry, write a poem with snow as the title." Meng Yuan said.

It is already summer, and the topic of snow is not appropriate.

But he just proposed to write poems with snow as the theme.

Lin Xuan wrote a poem about snow before, but in fact it used snow as a metaphor for plum, so it can't be regarded as writing about snow.

It's just that everyone was stunned by Lin Xuan's poem at that time, and they didn't react.

Although I realized it afterwards, the poetry meeting is just an activity to meet friends through literature, and there is no reward, so what's the use of finding Lin Xuan?

But it can be seen from this incident that Lin Xuan is not good at writing snow.

Not everyone is like Li Bai and Du Fu. No matter what type of poems they write, they can compose freely. Most people have their own priorities.

Of course, they don't know about Li Bai and Du Fu, but that doesn't prevent them from thinking that Lin Xuan is not good at writing snow.

So after deliberation, they decided to write a poem with the theme of snow.

Apart from Lin Xuan and the others thinking that Lin Xuan is not good at writing snow, the most important thing is that Meng Yuan is very confident in his poems.

That's right, the poem competition is Meng Yuanlai's competition with Lin Xuan. He wrote a poem about snow last year, which was not known to outsiders. After reading it, everyone applauded.

This also made Meng Yuan full of confidence, maybe he could use this competition to spread his reputation throughout the Tang Dynasty.

write snow?

Lin Xuan frowned slightly, it wasn't that he copied... no, it should be written.

It's not that he can't write poems about snow. What kind of lonely boat and hat man, fishing for snow in the cold river alone, isn't he just writing about snow, and he even took Chinese textbooks.

It is not a piece of cake to deal with these people.

But there is a question of adapting to the situation.

Many people may find it strange that no matter how you write about snow in summer, it will not suit the occasion. There is no problem with writing this.

But the reason why poetry is liked by so many people is not just because of its beauty.

It is because poetry can sing aspirations.

Watching a person's poems can understand a person.

The poem "Jiang Xue" expresses the author's lofty and aloof thoughts of wanting to get rid of the worldly world, but how old is Lin Xuan?

Copying poems... Ahem, writing poems also has to consider the thoughts and emotions contained in the poems, and you can't scribble.

Seeing that Lin Xuan remained silent, Meng Yuan said, "Could it be that Lord Hou is afraid?"

Lin Xuan came back to his senses, ignored the sarcasm in Meng Yuan's tone, and asked, "Is it only for poetry? Can you write lyrics?"

write words?

Meng Yuan was slightly taken aback, wondering why Lin Xuan asked such a question, did Lin Xuan have ready-made words?

"Words are fine too." Meng Yuan agreed after thinking about it.

Tang poetry and Song Ci, many people think that the reason why the Tang Dynasty Ci is not popular is because the Tang Dynasty has not yet formed such a style.

In fact, this idea is wrong. Ci was originally born in the Tang Dynasty. It was originally a vulgar slang song sung in the market, with simple language and simple tunes.

And Li Bai, Bai Juyi and others have written Ci.

"Recalling Jiangnan" known to later generations was written by Bai Juyi.

The reason why the Tang Dynasty didn't like Ci was because most of them were sung in the market, and they all felt a bit vulgar. In addition, poetry was the mainstream, and imperial examinations were also required. This made poetry reach its peak in the Tang Dynasty.

During the Five Dynasties, the style of Ci began to rise among the royal family. For example, Li Yu, the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Wang Yan, the empress of the former Shu, and Meng Chang, the empress of the Later Shu, all loved to write lyrics and songs.Later, this trend was gradually passed on, so that the emperors of the Song Dynasty also loved writing lyrics, and literati followed suit, and writing lyrics naturally became the mainstream of Song Dynasty literature.

Tang poetry, Song Ci, Yuan opera, Ming and Qing novels, etc., any kind of writing carrier can be developed because it is influenced by the preferences of the superiors.

Poetry is the mainstream in the Tang Dynasty, no matter how good the lyrics are, as long as his poems are not bad, subjectively, Lin Xuan can't beat him.

And Meng Yuan is very confident in his poems. If he also compares poems, he will be a little worried. After all, the poems written by Lin Xuan before are very good. He asked himself that similar poems could not compare with those poems. If Lin Xuan wrote lyrics , he is naturally not afraid.

"It's limited to a stick of incense, and there is no limit to poetry. Whoever can win the most praise for his poetry will win." Meng Yuan said.

Lin Xuan couldn't help laughing, he thought the other party was going to make a poem in seven steps.

But think about it. In history, Cao Pi wanted to kill Cao Zhi, so he set the rule of making a poem in seven steps.

In fact, it is indeed difficult to write a poem in seven steps. If there is no inspiration for writing poetry, you may not be able to write it in a lifetime. If you have inspiration, it will only happen in a flash.

A stick of incense is actually very short, but does it take Lin Xuan so long?

There is an idiom called being confident, and Lin Xuan can describe it that way at this moment.

No, where Lin Xuan is confident, it should be the bamboo forest.

(End of this chapter)