The grandsons of Lu Xun were Lu Ji (alias Tuheng) and Lu Yun (alias Tulong),who were the two outstanding men of letters known as “Two Lus of the Western Jin” of the time.Once at a gathering of literary elites many of them tried best to make fun by chanting couplets and Lu Yun,out with the first half of a couplet,read“Amidst clouds is a man named Lu Tulong”,indicating a dragon soaring in clouds,with the word “long”(dragon) in his alias deftly implied into the couplet.At the very moment,Xun Minghe,a Luoyang inhabitant who had a facile imagination made a sequel to it,saying “ under the sun is another called Xunminghe” implying that the “he”(crane) was squeaking under the sun.The phrase “under the sun”,known as “Rixia” in Chinese,meant for the capital city where Emperor was living in ancient times.(韩荣良、韩志宇，2017:42) 1 |
