為名忙，為利忙，忙裡偷閒，飲杯茶去。 Busy for fame, busy for profit,

趣聯   佚名


為名忙，為利忙，忙裡偷閒，飲杯茶去。

勞心苦，勞力苦，苦中作樂，拿壺酒來。


FUNNY COUPLET (at an old Canton Restaurant) 
-- by Anon
-- Translated by Frank C Yue

Busy for fame, busy for profit,
Now take a rest -- Have a cup of hot tea.

Brain-racking is hard, labour is hard,
Joy 'midst hardship -- A jug of wine for me.

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金弓

湊湊熱鬧：

為名忙，為利忙，忙裡偷閒，飲杯茶去。
 
看市滯，看股滯，滯中生悶，淡出鳥來。

林超

為兒爭，為孫爭，爭得財富，子孫相爭。

為愛儍，為情儍，傻傻更更，虛渡此生。

林超

為錢癲，為財癲，癲狂終日，了其殘生。

為酒狂，為色狂，狂亂人生，敗腎傷身。

客上天然居 居然天上客 Guests up the Nature's Harvest Restaurant are ascending

回文趣聯  佚名

客上天然居   居然天上客


Palindrome Chinese Couplet -- 'Sampler 2'
(at a famous tavern/restaurant in yesteryear Canton)
-- by Anon
-- Translated by Frank C Yue


Guests up the Nature's Harvest Restaurant 
        are ascending;
Holy Cow ! They are celestial visitors 
        descending !  

人過大彿寺 寺彿大過人 The pedestrians pass the Big Buddha Temple by;

回文趣聯  佚名

人過大彿寺   寺彿大過人


Palindrome Chinese Couplet -- 'Sampler 1'
(for a certain Temple)
-- by Anon
-- Translated by Frank C Yue

The pedestrians pass the Big Buddha   
       Temple by;

The temple Buddha's bigger than the 
       passers-by.


The most famous palindrome is probably the following one, popularly attributed to
Napoleon Bonaparte. (Was his English really so good, I wonder. After Napoleon's
defeat at Waterloo he was exiled from 1814 to 1815 on Elba, a tiny mountainous
86-sq. mile Italian island in the Mediterranean between Corsica and Tuscany.)

       "ABLE WAS I ERE I SAW ELBA"

水車車水，水隨車，車停水止。 (唐伯虎) 魚網網魚，魚困網，網破魚亡。(懶豬豬)

唐伯虎 • 懶豬豬  趣聯

水車車水，水隨車，車停水止。 (1. 唐伯虎)

魚網網魚，魚困網，網破魚亡。 (2. 懶豬豬)

FUNNY COUPLET

-- by 1. Tang Bohu (Ming Dynasty)

-- by 2. "Lazy Piggy"

-- Translated by Frank C Yue

Water-wheel wheels water up;

Water fills wheel and won't stop.

When the wheel stops the water stops 

flowing.

Fish-net's used to net the fish;

The net traps big shoals of fish.

The fish are gone and the net is breaking.

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以下 下聯 與 和聯 contributed by talented and interested i-readers :

  
cstam (with English rendition of his 2 below) 

<細佬手痕, 見諒 :>  O O ... no problemo! thank you for the pair 
(of your renditions in Chinese and English.  平常心看平常事。)

唐伯虎 • cstam  趣聯 :

水車車水，水隨車，車停水止。 (1. 唐伯虎)  

奶罩罩奶，奶頂罩，罩落奶出。 (2. cstam)


1. Water-wheel wheels water up;

    Water fills wheel and won't stop.
 

    When the wheel stops the water stops 

         flowing.

2. Breast cover covers breast,

    

    Breast is tightly surrounded by the cover;

    

    When the cover falls the breast is exposed.

philip2008

<tam 兄鬼才，拍得住 黃霑 啊！！！！>

philip2008  趣聯 :
 

蝶夢夢蝶，蝶之夢，夢醒蝶飛。

魚網網魚，魚困網，網破魚活。

守真居士

  

<禾也献醜 :>

做愛愛做,  做完愛,  愛不做了!

人言言人,  人多言,  言失人敗。



唐伯虎 • 守真居士  趣聯 :

 
 水車車水，水隨車，車停水止。  (1. 唐伯虎)
 
 飯餸餸飯，飯加餸，餸少飯多。  (2. 守真居士)

唐伯虎：水車車水，水隨車，車停水止。Water-wheel wheels water up;

  明 • 唐伯虎  趣聯

  水車車水，水隨車，車停水止。

  風扇扇風，風出扇，扇動風生。
 

FUNNY COUPLET 
-- by Tang Bohu (Ming Dynasty) 
-- Translated by Frank C Yue

Water-wheel wheels water up;
Water fills wheel and won't stop.
When the wheel stops the water stops flowing. 

The fan fans up the breeze light;
The fan gives the light breeze flight.
When the fan moves then the breeze is blowing.



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李思行

水車車水，水隨車，車停水止。

飯煲煲飯，飯要煲，煲靚飯香。

李思行

水車車水，水隨車，車停水止。

貨車車貨，貨跟車，車翻貨散。

波浪男兒

唐伯虎 之趣聯的確是好聯。一對好聯需要名詞對名詞，
動詞對動詞等等，最後還要上下聯每字平仄相對，
例如這對聯每字皆是平仄相對的。
試用我的文字對上聯：

水車車水，水隨車，車停水止。
泥鏟鏟泥，泥入鏟，鏟動泥移。

完全符合了名詞對名詞，動詞對動詞，
而上下聯每字平仄皆相對。

九鳥

隨心隨口就是好，管平管仄夠老土。
最惊嚴肅老夫子，至怕認真教育家!

唐伯虎：不煉金丹不坐禪，不為商賈不耕田。Not heating up the tripod for the Elixir pill, Nor doing deep meditation while sitting still

【言志】 明 • 唐伯虎

　
 

不煉金丹不坐禪，

不為商賈不耕田。

閑來寫幅丹青賣，

不使人間造孽錢。

"Not heating up the tripod for the Elixir pill"

-- by Tang Bohu (Ming Dynasty)

-- Translated by Frank C Yue

Not heating up the tripod for the Elixir pill,

Nor doing deep meditation while sitting

still --

A merchant or a farmer, I shall not be;

At leisure, I will just draw a painting for 

sale.

I've vowed ne'er to make money that's 

sinful and stale;

(I love to live my life my way and will be

free!)

唐伯虎：不煉金丹不坐禪，饑來吃飯倦來眠。 Not heating up the tripod for the Elixir pill

《不煉金丹不坐禪》 明 • 唐伯虎

不煉金丹不坐禪，饑來吃飯倦來眠。

生涯畫筆兼詩筆，蹤跡花邊與柳邊。

 

鏡裏形骸春共老，燈前夫婦月同圓。
 

萬場快樂千場醉，世上閒人地上仙。

"NOT HEATING UP THE TRIPOD FOR THE ELIXIR PILL"
 

-- by Tang Bohu (Ming dynasty)

-- Translated by Frank C Yue

Not heating up the tripod for the Elixir pill,
 

Nor doing deep meditation while sitting still --
 

I eat when I am hungry,
 

I go to bed when I'm sleepy.
 

All my life, my poetic brush draws paintings mellow;
 

I love admiring the beautiful Flower and the Willow.

Both the body and Spring grow old, in the mirror 'tis 

found;
 

Before the lamp, the husband and wife watch the Moon round.
 

Ten thousand rounds of utter happiness,
 

A thousand rounds of fuzzy drunkenness --
 

In this world, he who roams leisurely
 

Is surely an Earthly Deity!