明人解缙,他家门对面是富豪的竹林。除夕,他在门上贴了一副春联:门对千根竹,家藏万卷书。富豪嫌他借自家的景装门面,便叫人把竹子砍掉。解缙深解其意,于上下联各添一字:门对千根竹短,家藏万卷书长。富豪更加恼火,下令把竹子连根挖掉。解缙暗中发笑,于是在上 Ming Jin Xie Jin, his house opposite the rich bamboo. New Year’s Eve, he posted a couplets on the door: the door of thousands of bamboo, possession of thousands of books at home. Regal too suspect that he borrowed their own landscape decoration, they called the bamboo cut off. Xie Jin deep solution to its meaning, add a word in the upper and lower couplets: a thousand pairs of bamboo door short, possession of a thousand volumes of books. Regal even more annoyed, ordered the roots dug up bamboo. Xie Jin dark smile, so on