In 1063 AD, Wang Anshi went home from the court. I found a strange woman in her twenties sitting by the bed. She looked breathable and dressed in a charming manner. I saw her looking at Wang Anshi shyly. Wang Anshi was so scared that she took several steps back. After Wang Anshi calmed down, he asked, "Who are you? Who asked you to sit in my room?" The woman stood up and saluted, and replied truthfully, "It was the lady who asked me to come.
I bought it to be a concubine for the official." Wang Anshi was furious when he heard this. The woman was trembling and could only tell the truth: "I have already married a wife, my husband He is a small official in charge of food and grass transportation, but he had just encountered an accident in the previous stage and the grain ship overturned and owed a lot of debts. In order to help his husband pay the debt, he had to sell himself as a concubine and serve you!" After hearing this, Wang Anshi sighed and said pity: "You don't have to be a concubine for me. You should go home immediately to reunite with your husband!" Then, Wang Anshi immediately sent the concubine home and paid off the debt for his husband, which made the couple reconcile.
As the prime minister, Wang Anshi only had one wife and no concubine in his life. The fundamental reason why Wang Anshi is so maverick is that Wang Anshi and his wife Mrs. Wu are indeed very loving. The marriage between Wang Anshi and Mrs. Wu is a legend, and there is a very famous legend. The four major happy events in life are long drought and rain, meeting old friends in a foreign land, having fun at night in the bridal chamber, and when they are named on the golden list. For ancient scholars, the joy of joy is naturally to marry a beautiful wife and a high school Jinshi.
But Wang Anshi achieved these two happy events in his life with a couplet and reached the peak of his life. On the Lantern Festival in 1042 AD, 21-year-old Wang Anshi went to Beijing to take the exam. He passed by a large family and saw an lantern hanging in front of the door. Under the lamp, an upper couplet was hung. He asked a couplet to marry him: "The lantern is the lantern, the lantern is running, the lantern is extinguished, and the horse is stopped." The curious Wang Anshi couldn't express the second couplet for a while, so he could only remember it silently. Coincidentally, Wang Anshi encountered a couplet question during the imperial examination answering questions: "Flying tiger flag, flying tiger, and rolling tiger hiding." This stumped Wang Anshi. Suddenly, Wang Anshi's inspiration appeared, recalling the couplet of the Lantern Festival on the Lantern Festival, and immediately picked up his pen and wrote: "The lantern is the lantern, the lantern is the horse, the lantern is off, the horse stops." It is precisely because of this couplet that Wang Anshi was able to pass the Jinshi and return to his hometown with great honor.
On the way back to his hometown, Wang Anshi went to the wealthy family and was surprised to find that no one could match the couplet of the marriage, so he simply used the test: "Flying Tiger Flag, Flying Tiger, and Flag Rolling Tiger to hide." In this way, Wang Anshi successfully became the son-in-law of a wealthy family. A small couplet, the first couplet helped Wang Anshi pass the Jinshi, and the second couplet helped Wang Anshi marry a beautiful wife.
Of course, something even more magical happens. On the day Wang Anshi got married, the big word "happy" hung high in the house. Wang Anshi was about to celebrate with his beautiful wife, but coincidentally his official article of a high school Jinshi was sent to the mansion. When such a double happiness came, Wang Anshi had a sudden inspiration and immediately picked up his pen and added another word next to the word "Happy". This is also the origin of the word "囍".
