According to their contents and uses, couplets can be divided into Spring Festival couplets, Happy Couplets, Shoulian couplets, elegiac couplets, scenic couplets, narrative couplets, epigrams couplets, fun couplets and so on. Spring Festival couplets are divided into: general couplets, industry couplets and zodiac couplets. Interesting couplets can be divided into: palindrome couplets, place names couplets, analysis couplets, overlapping couplets, overlapping couplets, embedded couplets, homophones, duplexes, top-truth couplets, circuitous couplets, hidden couplets, enigmatic couplets and so on.
Couplets can be divided into door couplets, hall couplets and couplets (couplets posted in front of the hall are called couplets) according to the position of posting (engraving and hanging).
Couplets can be divided into short couplets and long couplets according to the number of words Traditionally, anything less than seven words is called short couplet; More than ten words at a time are called long couplets. Others call single-sentence couplets short couplets, double-sentence couplets and multi-sentence couplets long couplets.