Meng Yuan's eyes flashed with joy and he said: "Master Hou, if you don't have the second couplet, then you can't answer this question."
"Yes, you don't even have a second line, so you can't count."
Everyone in Taihe Academy reacted and all agreed.
"Who stipulates that the first couplet cannot be published without the second couplet?" Lin Xuan asked rhetorically.
"Forehead."
Everyone was stunned. It seemed that there was indeed no such rule.
Lu Qian gave a wry smile and said, "Let's end the couplet competition here. We lost."
"Master Lu, you can't admit defeat. Although there is no rule that the first couplet must have a second couplet, he himself doesn't have a second couplet, so he should add more time."
"Yes, that's right. If we have another hour, someone among us will definitely be able to answer it."
Others were unwilling to admit defeat.
A trace of anger flashed across Lu Qian's face and he said, "In that case, you guys are right, I won't get involved."
Others can be shameless in order to win, but he can't do it, especially on the couplets he likes.
Lin Xuan sneered and said: "Don't give you an hour, even if I give you a hundred years, you still won't be able to do it, because this is an eternal absolute."
"What?"
"The first couplet must have a second couplet, but we just didn't expect it. It can't be absolute."
"That's right, it's normal for some Shanglians to take months or years for someone to confront them. If you say it's absolute, then it's absolute?"
Lin Xuan's words caused an uproar, and many people expressed doubts.
Lin Xuan shrugged and said nothing more. In fact, the so-called eternal absolute, the person who wrote the first couplet himself did not know that his first couplet would become eternally absolute.
It's because no one in the later generations can match it that it is called absolute through the ages.
Lin Xuan couldn't tell them that no one had matched this couplet for thousands of years.
Meng Yuan said loudly: "Well, it was not stipulated before that the upper link must have a lower link. We did lose this game."
If they and the people from Boyuan Academy were alone, they could still play tricks, but with Li Shimin and a group of ministers in the court, they did not dare to go too far.
Not to mention anything else, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and others also have high prestige among the scholars. If the news about their cheating spreads, their face will be lost.
Seeing what Meng Yuandu said, everyone else in Taihe Academy reluctantly sat down.
"Master Hou, let's start the second competition now." Meng Yuan said.
Pairing is relatively niche, and even if you lose, the impact will not be big. To put it bluntly, studying is for the purpose of becoming an official. What is the use of being good at pairing? Can you still become an official?
As long as you win the following games, it doesn't matter if you lose the first game.
"Tell me, what's the second game?" Lin Xuan asked.
"Compare poems and write a poem with snow as the title." Meng Yuan said.
It's summer now, so it's not appropriate to use snow as a theme.
But he just proposed to write a poem with snow as the theme.
Lin Xuan has written a poem about snow before, but it actually uses snow as a metaphor for plum blossoms and cannot be regarded as writing about snow.
But at that time, everyone was stunned by Lin Xuan's poem and did not react.
Although I came to my senses afterwards, the Poetry Club was just an activity to make friends through literature and there was no reward, so what was the use of looking for Lin Xuan?
But it can be seen from this incident that Lin Xuan is not good at writing about snow.
Not everyone is Li Bai and Du Fu. No matter what type of poem they write, they can write it at their fingertips. Most people have their own focus.
Of course, they didn't know Li Bai and Du Fu, but that didn't stop them from thinking that Lin Xuan was not good at writing about snow.
So after discussion, they decided to write a poem with snow as the title.
In addition to Lin Xuan and others thinking that Lin Xuan is not good at writing about snow, the most important thing is that Meng Yuan is very confident in his poems.
Yes, the poetry competition was between Meng Yuanlai and Lin Xuanlai. He wrote a poem about snow last year, which was not known to outsiders. After everyone read it, they unanimously applauded it.
This also gave Meng Yuan a lot of confidence, and he might be able to use this competition to spread his reputation throughout the Tang Dynasty.
Write about snow?
Lin Xuan frowned slightly, it wasn't that he copied it...no, he should have written it.
It’s not that he can’t write poems about snow. Isn’t that what he wrote about snow, like a lone boatman with a coir raincoat fishing alone in the snow on a cold river? He also wrote about it in Chinese textbooks.
It's not a piece of cake to deal with these people.
But this involves a situational issue.
Many people may find it strange that when writing about snow in the middle of summer, no matter how you write, you will not be able to adapt to the situation. There is no problem in writing this.
But the reason why poetry is liked by so many people is not just because of its beauty.
It’s also because poetry can express one’s aspirations.
You can understand a person by reading his poems.
The poem "Jiang Xue" expresses the author's desire to get rid of the secular world and aloof and aloof thoughts. How old is Lin Xuan?
Copying poems... ahem, when writing poems, you also have to consider the thoughts and emotions contained in the poems, and you can't write them randomly.
Meng Yuan Yuan and Lin Xuan remained silent and said, "Is it possible that the Marquis is afraid?"
Lin Xuan came to his senses, ignored the sarcasm in Meng Yuan's tone, and asked: "Is it just poetry? Can I write lyrics?"
Writing lyrics?
Meng Yuan was slightly startled. He didn't know why Lin Xuan asked this. Does Lin Xuan have any ready-made words?
"Ci is fine too." Meng Yuan thought for a while and agreed.
As for Tang poetry and Song lyrics, many people think that the reason why poetry was not popular in the Tang Dynasty was because this style of writing had not yet been formed.
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 melody.
Li Bai, Bai Juyi and others have all written lyrics.
The "Recalling Jiangnan" known to later generations was written by Bai Juyi.
The reason why the Tang Dynasty did not like poetry was because most of the poetry was sung in the market and felt a bit vulgar. In addition, poetry was the mainstream, and imperial examinations also required examinations. This made poetry reach its peak in the Tang Dynasty.
During the Five Dynasties period, the style of poetry began to rise among the royal families. For example, emperors such as Li Yu, the Queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Wang Yan, the Queen of the Former Shu, and Meng Chang, the Queen of the Later Shu, all loved composing lyrics and songs. Later, this trend was gradually passed on.
So much so that the emperors of the Song Dynasty also loved writing lyrics, and as literati and poets imitated each other, writing lyrics naturally became the mainstream of Song Dynasty literature.
Tang poetry, Song lyrics, Yuan opera, Ming and Qing novels, etc., the development of any kind of writing carrier is influenced by the preferences of the superiors.
Poetry was the mainstream in the Tang Dynasty. No matter how good the lyrics were, as long as his poems were not bad, subjectively, Lin Xuan could not beat him.
Meng Yuan was very confident in his poems, and he would be a little worried if the poems were also compared. After all, the few poems Lin Xuan had written before were very good. He asked himself that similar poems could not compare with those poems. If Lin Xuan wrote lyrics
, he is naturally not afraid.
"With the limit of one stick of incense, there is no limit to poems. Whoever's poems can win the most praise will win," Meng Yuan said.
Lin Xuan laughed dumbly. He thought the other party was going to make a poem in seven steps.
But think about it. Historically, Cao Pi wanted to kill Cao Zhi, so he set the seven-step rule for writing a poem.
In fact, it is indeed difficult to write a poem in seven steps. If you don't have inspiration, you may never write it in a lifetime. If you have inspiration, it will only happen in a moment.
A stick of incense is actually very short, but does Lin Xuan need so long?
There is an idiom called confident, and Lin Xuan can be described like this at this moment.
No, Lin Xuan is not confident, he should be in the bamboo forest.