Chapter 68: Eight lines of limerick poetry
'Eight horizontal lines, eight vertical lines; The first eight rows, the last eight rows;
short eight lines, long eight lines; Eight lines per inch, and an inch is long and inch-length? ’
What is this for? Guess the riddle?
The first lady's chair was the only one with such handwriting, could it be that he was directing me out?
If so, could I have unlocked the poem and found the door to the compartment? With this in mind, I looked intently at the verses.
Eight horizontal rows, eight vertical rows......
Does it mean that there are eight lines horizontally and eight lines vertically? So is this line pronounced xing or hang?
Nian hang always feels that there is no inside, but it is a bit of artistic conception of Nian Xing.
It means to walk eight steps horizontally and another eight steps vertically, right?
Left or right?
After a burst of brainstorming, I decided to give it a try as a dead horse doctor. With the so-called woman's intuition, I turned my toes behind me, starting from the left!
Along the base of the mural wall, I slowly walked away, and began to carefully count the numbers in my heart, and walked eight steps—eight horizontal rows;
After a ninety-degree turn, I took another eight steps facing the center of the room—eight vertical rows.
How should the first eight lines and the last eight lines be interpreted? ’
As a rule, women do not leave the boudoir, and the distance between the main house and the first door is generally only about ten steps. Is it possible to say that at this time I should face the woman's mural and take eight steps forward?
Then the last eight steps, I won't go back, right?
That's it, the sentence 'short eight lines, long eight lines', if you follow this way, I still don't have a solution.
If there is no breakthrough, then I am equivalent to spinning on the first eight steps.
It must be wrong to go in such a literal sense!
After all, this is a puzzle for a dignified lady, and it is not so simple to think about. At that time, Cao Zhi's seven-step poems did not write any sentences such as one step, two steps, three or four steps, five steps, six steps, seven or eight steps.
Then, as the virtuous helper of the champion, this lady is indispensable to know books, and of course she will not be so superficial. She must not look at her own departure, she should write about what she is good at academics......
Academically, it should be arithmetic that can use numbers.
Arithmetic, figure to find the perimeter, and sum are more mainstream topics, is this asking me to find the length of each step?
Oh my God! Why don't you give me a pen and a piece of scratch paper!
Then again, this lady wouldn't be stupid enough to write a poem, would she have to do it? I reluctantly propped my head with my hands and kept looking at the mural behind me.
If one step is three feet three, eight steps is eight meters eight, if I follow such a precise way in the poem, in the end I will either hit a wall, or the same as before.
It feels like you're back to square one.
Wait, I seem to have overlooked something!
I suddenly looked back at the mural, and I couldn't help but realize that I had overlooked a key point after thinking about it for so long. The poem did not have to be written by the lady, because she was dead before the painting was painted.
These sentences are either the people who painted the paintings to commemorate her, picking out the sentences she wrote; Either it is specially used to hint at how future generations will get out of the tower, or what secrets are hidden.
Then I should now be completely based on what is in front of me, instead of thinking about how she wrote the poem in the first place.
Thinking of this, I decisively concentrated my mind and quietly looked at the layout of the entire room.
Eight lines horizontally, there should be nothing wrong with the pronunciation of the word xing. However, behind him is an arc, which is not horizontal or vertical.
Therefore, in the first sentence, the horizontal eight lines should be regarded as an exciting effect, 'If you want to say this thing, you must first say other things'. This horizontal is something else.
Then, there are the vertical eight rows and the first eight rows, and the length of the eight rows is still eight meters eight; The length of the two sentences is the same, and according to the way of walking, a right angle can be completely formed in front of the eyes.
In other words, if imagined as a figure, these two steps can be imagined as an isosceles right triangle side, and with the fresco behind it, the connected field is like a slice of cake.
That's where I'm now.
The next step, the last eight lines, in short, should not be rewinded.
After all, as a woman's family, verbal taboos can never be passed down. Regression is the same as retreat, and it should not be something that this champion lady is willing to leave behind.
So this step should be eight steps back in front of the isosceles triangle.
This eight steps are also on the arc and are as long as the horizontal eight steps.
And now where it is, the position of the dragon and phoenix is auspicious pattern.
Then eight lines are short, eight lines are long, eight lines are inch, and inch-long is broken.
How can this be solved......
In the Tang Dynasty, women were not bound by so many rules and regulations, and there were no strict rules on feet. However, everyone has their own unique way of walking, in order to achieve the demeanor of a fair lady.
If you want to imagine this short eight steps, it should be the most slim way to walk close to the feet, and the long eight steps is a more sturdy way to walk. But she still asked, how long is the inch?
Q: Length? Fierce and ladylike are opposites, long and short are opposites; Deeper speculation, is it possible to imagine that men and women are also opposite.
In this candlestick chart, there is actually another meaning for men and women, that is, they complement each other.
When I thought of this, a flash of inspiration flashed through my mind, and yes, I seemed to have grasped the key point of the poem - complementarity!
On the night of the wedding, the man and the woman should be one in the candles in the cave room, and they will advance and retreat together......
Is this what this lady means? The length and shortness are all eight steps, and the length and the short are also complementary, and according to the average value, it should be exactly the same as the previous eight steps.
So what these last two sentences say is that you don't need to walk twice at all, you only need to walk once, and that's it.
The final eight steps...... How long is an inch?
The answer is actually that it is not broken, let alone long!
It's just that the usual steps can no longer be normal, and they won't change because of any way of moving!
To be upright and bright, to have no distractions, but also to do it in one go!
Thinking of this, I unconsciously had the idea of assuming myself to be this lady again. I cheered up my spirit, stood in front of the dragon and phoenix murals, and took the first step of the last eight steps in a dignified manner.
One-step, two-step, three-step...... The silence around me was still like death, which brought me an inexplicable tension and fear.
I began to be a little scared, afraid that I would try my best to unravel the verses and end up with nothing. Right now, the more there is no movement, the harder my heart beats.
But even so, I had to force myself to be calm. The nails in the clenched fist sank deep into the palm, and I relied on the tingling pain in the palm of my hand to control the speed of my stride step by step, and march evenly towards the window step by step.
In the eighth step, I finally landed steadily not far from the incense burner in the middle, and before I could take a long breath to release my full tension, my ears suddenly clicked.
I hurriedly followed the sound, and my heart, which had been hanging in the air before, fell instantly.
'I'm unraveled!' That's great! ’