About Spring Festival couplets. Spring Festival couplets are a unique literary form in China. This is an important symbol for us to celebrate the Spring Festival. During the Spring Festival, every household will pin their expectations for the new year on the Spring Festival couplets. Let's take a look at the contents of Spring Festival couplets.
The contents of Spring Festival couplets 1 Spring Festival couplets generally include the upper couplet and the lower couplet, as well as the horizontal batch plus two blessings.
The content of couplets generally rhymes symmetrically, and there are several kinds of couplets.
1, general links and special links:
(1) Universal couplets: Spring Festival couplets,
(2) Special couplets include: tea couplets, birthday couplets, marriage couplets, marriage couplets, elegiac couplets, industry couplets, training couplets, ritual couplets and title couplets.
2. Classification by word number: short couplet (within the cross); Zhonglian (within 100 words); Long couplet (/kloc-more than 0/00 words), etc.
3. According to the classification of rhetorical skills:
(1) Duality: word pair, object pair, pair pair, opposition, worker pair, width pair, running pair, palindrome pair and top pair.
(2) Rhetorical association: metaphor, exaggeration, backchat, pun, rhetorical question and homophonic.
(3) Skill association: embedded words, hidden words, compound words, overlapping words, radicals, word analysis, word segmentation and numbers.
4. According to the source classification of conjunctions:
(1) antithetical couplet: a couplet composed entirely of ready-made sentences in ancient poetry.
(2) Couplets Collection: Couplets composed of ancient Copybook for calligraphy articles and characters.
(3) Pick a sentence couplet: a couplet made by picking a sentence directly from someone else's poem.
(4) Creation of couplets: Couplets created independently by the author.
Content of Spring Festival couplets 2 The main content of Spring Festival couplets is to celebrate, congratulate and express auspicious wishes.
Spring stickers are also called Spring Festival couplets and blessing stickers, which are called rejuvenation in Cantonese and Zai Chun in Minnan. They are traditional decorations used during the Spring Festival. The auspicious words of the New Year are written in beautiful calligraphy on paper, usually posted on walls and doors. In China society, Korean Peninsula and Viet Nam, people always put up spring stickers every Spring Festival to increase the festive atmosphere of the festival. Among them, couplets are also called Spring Festival couplets, but in some areas, "Spring Festival couplets" are also the general name of various spring stickers, while in some areas, strip-shaped and unpaired spring stickers are called spring strips.
Example:
1, harmony
The first part: 24-hour solar terms, Gankun competitive show
Part II: Fifty-six wonderful flowers, harmony and spring.
Horizontal Identity: Harmony between Man and Nature
Step 2 be harmonious
Part I: Harmony between heaven and earth, harmony between people and harmony with China.
Part II: The beauty of songs, dances and flowers lies in tonight.
Horizontal batch: good luck in the new year
3. Heshun
Part One: Harmony and Shun Qian Jiale
The bottom line is: people are blessed every month and every year.
Horizontal approval: Guotai Min 'an
Step 4 be harmonious
The first part: the party's heart and people's hearts are United, and scientific development has mushroomed.
Bottom line: the country is lucky, the family is lucky, the plan is lucky, and social harmony is rising.
Horizontal batch: Vientiane update
5. Smooth sailing, good luck, good luck, good luck, good luck, good luck, good luck.
6, smooth sailing, good luck every year, all the best, step by step, horizontal approval: good luck.
7. Get rid of the old habits, five stresses and four beauties, and build a new style: say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.
8, a year of good luck with the spring to the four seasons colorful clouds rolling horizontal batch: all the best.
9. In the spring of the year, flowers are always in full bloom: welcome the new year.
10, good luck all year round, treasures come into the house from all directions: home and everything.
1 1. Scissors cut out articles in four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Smile at the guests from all corners of the country, nine continents and four seas: business is booming.
Information about Spring Festival couplets.
Spring Festival couplets originated in Fu Tao. "Fu Tao" is a rectangular red wooden board hanging on both sides of the door in the Zhou Dynasty. According to the Book of Rites, the peach symbol is six inches long and three inches wide, and the words "Shen Tu", "Lei Yu" and "Ershen" are written on the mahogany board. "On the first day of the first month, a peach symbol was made for this family, which was called immortal wood. All ghosts were afraid of it." Therefore, the Qing Dynasty's "Yanjing Shi Sui Ji" said: "Spring Festival couplets, that is, Fu Tao."
In the Five Dynasties, in the court of West Shu, someone wrote couplets on peach symbols. According to the Records of History of Song Dynasty and Family History of Shu State, Meng Chang, the master of the latter Shu Dynasty, ordered Zhang Xun, a bachelor, to write a poem on the mahogany board, saying, "It's not a job, so he pretended to be a poem on the cloud: New Year, Changchun on the First Day." This is China's first Spring Festival couplets. Until the Song Dynasty, Spring Festival couplets were still called "Fu Tao". In the Song Dynasty, the peach symbol was changed from red board to paper, which was called "Spring Sticker".
In the Ming Dynasty, Fu Tao changed its name to "Spring Festival couplets". Chen's Miscellaneous Notes on Mao Yunlou in Ming Dynasty wrote: "Spring Festival couplets stand in." Before New Year's Eve, Jinling, the imperial capital, suddenly issued a decree to add a pair of Spring Festival couplets at the entrance of the official school, so that the emperor would appear when he walked. Zhu Yuanzhang not only went out of town incognito to see the laughter in person, but also wrote Spring Festival couplets himself. He passed by a family and saw that the Spring Festival couplets had not been posted on the door. He went to ask, knowing that it belonged to a castrated pig, and had not asked anyone to write it. Zhu Yuanzhang specially wrote Spring Festival couplets for the castrated pig man, which read "Split the road of life and death with both hands and cut off the root of right and wrong with one knife". Relevance and humor. After Ming Taizu's advocacy, Spring Festival couplets have since become a custom, which has been passed down to this day.
One legend is that ...
In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, an ancient myth in China, there is a ghost domain with a mountain and a big peach tree in the middle, covering 3,000 miles, and a golden rooster on the treetop. Whenever the golden rooster crows in the morning, the ghost who travels at night will rush back to the ghost domain. The Gate of Ghost Domain is located in the northeast of Peach Tree District. There are two gods standing by the door, named Shen Tu and Lei Yu. If the ghost does something unnatural at night, Shen Tu and Lei Yu will immediately find it, catch it, tie it up with a rope made of Miscanthus and give it to the tiger. So all the ghosts in the world are afraid of Shen Tu and Lei Yu. So people in China carved them into peach trees and put them at the door to ward off evil spirits and prevent harm.
Later, people simply carved the names of Shen Tu and Lei Yu on the mahogany board, thinking that this could also eliminate disasters. This kind of red board was later called "Fu Tao". In the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on mahogany boards, one for killing evil spirits, the other for expressing good wishes, and the third for decorating the portal for beauty. They also write couplets on red paper symbolizing happiness and auspiciousness, and stick them on both sides of doors and windows during the Spring Festival to express people's good wishes for good luck in the coming year.
meaning
As early as the Warring States period more than two thousand years ago, the Central Plains region hung "peach stalks" on the Spring Festival, also known as "peach symbols". Fu Cha Dunchong's Yanjing Spring Festival couplets in Qing Dynasty recorded: "Spring Festival couplets are also Fu Tao. Since entering the customs, some scholars have written Spring Festival couplets under the eaves of the city in order to moisten their pens. After the sacrifice, it gradually tilted up and thousands of families took on a new look. " Pop away from the traditional Spring Festival couplets; The relationship between Spring Festival couplets and Fu Tao is also evident.
What is a peach symbol? According to Huainanzi, this "peach symbol" is made of peach wood one inch wide and seven or eight inches long. Write the names of Shen Tu and Lei Yu on the mahogany board and hang them on both sides of the door. Or draw these two gods-left and right. The ancients used Fu Tao's calligraphy and painting Er Shen to suppress evil spirits. This is also commonly known as the "keeper" in China. In the Five Dynasties of more than 700 AD, Meng Changjun, the queen of Shu, wrote "New Year's Qing Yu, No Festival A". Changchun. " It is the earliest Spring Festival couplets in China.
In Song Dynasty, Spring Festival couplets were still called "Fu Tao". Couplets are not only carved on peach symbols, but also pushed on pillars, which are later called "couplets". After the Song Dynasty, Yichun Post Station used couplets to write powder notes. Some people collect the ancient sayings of The Book of Songs, while others collect Tang and Song poems. According to legend, there is Wang Li's Spring Festival couplets: "The northern country is vast, and thousands of doors are fresh." This is the Spring Festival couplets hanging on people's teeth and cheeks.
Fu Tao was really called Spring Festival couplets in the Ming Dynasty. According to Ming Dynasty scholar Chen, "Spring Festival couplets began in". Jinling, the imperial capital (now Nanjing), don't send messages before New Year's Eve. You should add a pair of Spring Festival couplets at the door, and the emperor will go out to watch them. "Zhu Yuanzhang not only traveled incognito personally, watched the laughter, but also personally presented the Spring Festival couplets to Bachelor Tao An and others. The emperor's advocacy made the Spring Festival couplets increasingly prosperous, and finally formed an enduring fashion. Couplets are called "couplets", commonly known as pairs. Concise and profound, neat and balanced, word for word, is a unique art form of Chinese language. It can be said that couplet art is a cultural treasure of the Chinese nation. The types of couplets can be divided into Spring Festival couplets, wedding couplets, birthday couplets, elegiac couplets, filial couplets, decorative couplets, industry couplets, communication couplets and miscellaneous couplets (including humorous couplets).