Take a shower, blow bubbles and sleep with a pillow. What is the next couplet of this sentence?

1, leather doll, learning painting, doodling with crayons.

2, male brother, female sister, chatting with the phone.

Couplets are one of the traditional cultures of the Han nationality. They are antithetical sentences written on paper, cloth or engraved on bamboo, wood and columns. The antithesis of couplets is neat and even, which is a unique cultural and artistic form of Chinese language. According to legend, couplets originated from Meng Changjun, the master of Shu after the Five Dynasties. Couplets are the traditional cultural treasures of Han nationality in China.

Couplets, also called couplets, are named after the pillars hung in halls and houses in ancient times. They are commonly known as even characters, couplets, couplets and doors. The name "couplets" began in the Ming Dynasty. It is a kind of dual literature, which originated in Fu Tao, and it is a national style that uses the characteristics of Chinese characters to write. Its wonderful combination with calligraphy has become a colorful artistic creation of the Chinese nation.

trait

Uniqueness and universality

Parasitism and tolerance

Practicality and artistry

Fashion and elegance

serious

classify

According to the purpose

1. Universal couplets-such as Spring Festival couplets,

2. Special couplets-such as tea couplets, birthday couplets, wedding couplets, elegiac couplets, industry couplets, aphorisms, gift couplets, answers to questions, etc.

3. Spring Festival couplets: special couplets for the New Year.

Such as: Kyushu willow spits green; Peach and apricot compete for spring in May.

4. Greeting couplets: used for birthday, marriage, housewarming, having children, opening business and other festive occasions.

Such as: a pair of red hearts for the four modernizations; Two new hand-painted pictures. (Xi Lian), as happy as the East China Sea; Life is better than Nanshan. (first couplet)

5. elegiac couplet: mourn the dead.

For example, books have a strong future and will shock the world; Let the spirit shine forever and then benefit the people.

6. Give couplets: praise or encourage others to use them.

Such as: wind, rain, reading, the sound in the ear; Family affairs, state affairs and everything in the world care about everything.

7. Self-encouragement: For self-encouragement.

For example, books about the country are often read; Nothing is useless to body and mind.

8. Industry Association: Different industries are posted at the gate or in the store.

Such as: to know things from ancient times to the present; I have to read five books. (Bookstore) Although it is a clean business; But it's top kung fu. (Barber shop) welcomes guests in spring, summer, autumn and winter; Entertain people from east, west, north and south. (Hotel)

9. Yan Zhilian: The purpose of ambition.

Such as: I would rather be Zhao's ghost; Not for him, minister.

Count by word number

1. Short connection (within the cross)

2. Zhonglian (within 100 words)

3. Long couplet (100 words or more), etc.

According to rhetorical techniques

1. Duality: word right, object right, right right, opposition, work right, width right, flow right, palindrome right, top right.

2. Rhetoric couplets: metaphor, exaggeration, backchat, pun, rhetorical question and homophonic.

3. Skill association: embedded words, hidden words, compound words, overlapping words, radicals, word analysis, word splitting and numbers.

According to the source of couplets

1. Sentence couplet: a couplet composed entirely of ready-made sentences in ancient poetry.

2. Couplets composed of ancient Copybook for calligraphy articles and characters.

3. Sentence-picking couplets: Couplets made by picking antithetical sentences directly from other people's poems.

4. Create couplets: couplets independently created by the author.