Appreciation of couplets

it's not difficult to make couplets, and it's not easy to produce fine works. Therefore, it is beneficial to read more and remember more ancient and modern famous couplets. Here, only some couplets with characteristics in the art and skills of couplets are selected for appreciation with readers.

1, a large number of words are used

Ming Gu Xiancheng titled Donglin Academy Association (Talking about Fun with Famous Associations 275)

The sound of wind and rain is heard, and the sound is heard (11,11)

Family affairs, state affairs, and everything is concerned about (1111,1)

Gu Xiancheng. Wanli Jinshi, tired of the official to the official department anthology card shark. Being reprimanded for things, he founded Donglin Academy in Wuxi. After giving lectures, he often satirized the state affairs. The first couplet combines the sound of reading with the sound of wind and rain, which is both poetic and political. The second part takes it as its responsibility to rule the country and level the world. The wind is against the rain, the home is against the country, and the ear is against the heart. It is extremely neat, especially when used in conjunction with overlapping words, such as the sound of wind and rain and the sound of reading.

this couplet is characterized by the use of repeated words, and the first sentence is a seven-character sentence (111/1111).

The previous sentence (111) Wind () Rain (11) Reading (1)

The next sentence (1111) Family affairs (11) State affairs () What's going on in the world (11)

The second "sound/thing" (

Yongji Temple in Yanziji, Nanjing (Volume 6 of Couplets' Conghua)

The sound of pine and bamboo bells chimes freely (111, 11)

The mountains and waters are misty, and all colors are empty (1111, 11)

There is a lofty pavilion standing in the air, and it is said that the iron chain is alone. Today, the iron chain still exists, which is still unbelievable. There is Yongji Temple next to it.

The above two couplets have the same structure, and they all adopt the structure of "seven-four-word inversion" and "double-word self-alignment", with the same artistic means, but different ideological styles. The former joined the WTO and the latter was born; The former is commensurate with the style of study of Donglin Academy, while the latter is suitable for the religious atmosphere of Yongji Temple. As far as the artistic level is concerned, they are all fine works and absolutely irreplaceable.

2. The word "self-respect" is reversed.

Peng Yuanrui and Ji Xiaolan cooperate with Wansongling Palace Couplet (Volume II of Couplet Conghua)

Eighty kings, eighteen males everywhere, are called longevity by the roadside (11, 111, 11)

Heavenly sons, with nine festivals every year, and they are called "Fu" on the plug. There are so-called Wansongling people passing through the road, and the mountains are all loose. It is the place where I stayed in the mountain for the ninth day, and I think it is normal at the age of nine. Geng Xu, aged 1, was stationed here when he went up to the sentry post. He visited the palace on a weekly basis, calling Peng Wenqin's official, and ordered him to learn about Yi Xinyu, so that he could read it personally when he went up to the sentry post. After several days of thinking about it, I accidentally got a saying in the middle of the hall: "Eighty kings, 18 fair places everywhere, and longevity" is called "Wansongling", but it is difficult to be right. Because of the high price of a piece of paper, it belongs to Ji Wenda. Master Wen Da laughed and said, "Yun Mei is coming to test me again?" Even if the price comes, the sealed paper will be paid back. Wen Qin Gong opened his eyes, but he had already written a dialogue on the remaining paper. As the saying goes, "Heavenly Son of Nine, the ninth festival is put on every year", sighing, "Xiaolan is really better than me!" Back to the funeral day, this couplet was greatly praised, and Wen Qin Gong was specially given eight treasures. Gong knelt down and said, "This sentence was written by a minister, but it can't be right; Written by Ji Mou, the real language. Please move to reward Ji. " The master said, "You are good at both languages, so you deserve a reward." That is, another point will be given to Wen Dagong. Yu Wenzhi's Cheng Lan became a teacher.

from the above, it can be seen that this couplet was written by Peng Yuanrui and responded by Ji Xiaolan before the Double Ninth Festival in the fifty-fifth year of Qianlong (179). The couplet is a tribute to the eightieth birthday of Qianlong, which is wonderful in cutting people (Qianlong), cutting land (Wansongling) and cutting time (Double Ninth Festival), and it adopts the word "split" (loose for eighteen males), overlapping words (everywhere, year after year) and the word "self-respect" (eighty, eighteen; The high skill of the nine-fold, nine-fold) can be called the best couplet, although it should be made.

This couplet is a birthday couplet, and it is most appropriate to use four sentences to congratulate it. Inserting five sentences in the middle makes the whole couplet dignified and lively, and adding word games makes it even more interesting.

3. Three-three-seven structure

Fangdishan Spring Festival couplets

There are cars, food and fish, and the contemporary Meng taste can be a guest (11, 11, 1111)

I haven't finished my gold and clothes, so I won't go home this season (1, 1, 11) < p One year on New Year's Eve, he wrote this pair of Spring Festival couplets and posted them on the door of his house, expressing satisfaction with his host's hospitality and saying hello that he would not go home for the New Year this year. Couplets can write what they want to say but are too embarrassed to flatter them in person, citing classics and writing them openly, and they are very decent. Fang Dishan praised his owner as Meng Changjun and compared himself with Su Qin, which was not enough for training in politics, but it was indeed a masterpiece in art..

this dictionary is very particular. The first part uses the story of Feng Wenke Meng Changjun, and the second part uses the story of Su Qin talking about Qin with Lian Heng, all of which are from the Warring States Policy (see "The View of Ancient Chinese Literature"). Reading this couplet is equivalent to revisiting two famous books.

This couplet consists of two three-character sentences and one seven-character sentence. From the structure, we can see that the first three positions of two three-character sentences (11, 11/11, 11) and seven-character sentences (1111/11) are the same. Two three-character sentences can be regarded as partial repetition of seven-character sentences, so when reading aloud, the rhythm is distinct and the rhythm is very harmonious.

This link is based on Mr. Wang Junshi's notes during his lectures in the 194s. Another version (284) is slightly different in the bottom line: "gold is not exhausted, clothes are not open" as "fur is not open, gold is not exhausted"; "Don't go home" means "Don't go home".

the tortoise divination of the castle in the western film and television city is inscribed by an anonymous old man

The river draws pictures, Luo publishes books, and the civilization of the ages shines on the sun and the moon (11, 11, 1111)

Observing the sky, observing the ground, and at one time, the dharma image will be fixed on Gankun (*, 1, 11)

There is one in Beibao, Yinchuan Town, Ningxia. There is an old-fashioned commercial street in the city of new castle, which is full of shops, including teahouses, restaurants, cloth shops, money houses, drug stores, butang and so on. Every shop has a commercial couplet. This couplet, written by a Beijing Yi-ology scholar, adopts the structure of "337", with neat antithesis and elegant wording, and you can know at a glance that it is a fortune teller's divination hall.

4. Use rhymes

Couplets don't need rhymes, and they have a different flavor after rhyming, but the feet on the same side can only be flat or full.

Zhu Xi presented a scholar in Zhangzhou (Volume I of Couplets' Conghua)

The east wall fell down, and the west wall fell down, and we got a glimpse of the family's goodness (1,1,1111)

The front lane was deep, and the back lane was deep, so we didn't hear the sound of horses and chariots (1,11,11). This couplet depicts a poor scholar whose living conditions are poor, but his family is harmonious and his life is happy; Although no one visited him, he could study with peace of mind. The first couplet is a bit exaggerated, but the contrast is strong. This couplet is probably the earliest rhyme couplet.

structurally, the first two sentences of this couplet adopt a three-character sentence pattern, which is similar to folk songs and can be sung, with a unique flavor.

Liang Zhangju Titeng Huayin Pavilion (Volume 12 of Couplets' Conghua)

There are guests who are drunk, and there are no guests to sleep. They are happy and simple, and they can be ashamed (111, 11, 111, 11)

Long song is rough, short and sparse, and his poems are mediocre, and he chats with himself (, 1).

Liang Zhangju Topic Caotang (Volume II of Couplets' Continuation)

When guests come to get drunk, they go to sleep, and when they are old and idle, they feel ashamed (1, 11, 11, 11)

On learning, politics is sparse, poetry is not a family, and they talk about entertaining themselves (11, 111). 11)

This couplet was revised ten years later and hung in the "Caotang" in Pucheng at the age of 68. The third three-sentence sentence is changed into four-sentence sentence, and the last three-sentence sentence can be combined into seven-word reading, and the rhythm has changed. From the above two couplets, we can know that Liang Zhangju has made great efforts in both poetic art and couplet art.

He Danru's title is Foshan Tournament in Guangdong Province (54)

New acquaintance, old acquaintance, spring night has an appointment date, so what's the evening, the same moonlight color, you should look for

a tour here, a tour there, the scenery is so happy, and the situation is that there are several teahouses and restaurants in the front, leaving no room

(1) 1)

(1, 1, 1111, 111, 11, 1)

He Danru, born in the 25th year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty (182), was admitted as a juren in the first year of Tongzhi (1862), and once served as an instruction in Gaoyao County, and then he taught in the province and port.

This couplet describes the joyful Lantern Festival scene among the people, and the rhyme strengthens the cheerful and romantic atmosphere. What a beautiful spring night when the lights and the moon are shining and tourists are weaving.

This couplet is different in structure, so it can't be included in the standard sentence pattern, and it is only used as a special reference.

5. Mourning elegiac couplet

Wu Yanghan took Hu Cuishi couplet

My elder brother was speechless, scribbled articles and tried his best to drink (111, 1111)

My son could not return, and the poem (11, 11)

Mr. Qian Zhongshu wrote in 《 Empty prophecy returns to Tao Lingsentence, but I don't know if there is Li Huawen.

You should be lost when you are dreaming, but you can't hear the sound of swallowing. Forty thousand rebels died on the same day, and there were many sons in the world.

The poem "a countryman" means Hu Cuishi. Hu Cuishi (1888-1946), a native of Shaxi, Taicang, went to the United States to study in the spring of 1913 and obtained a master's degree in electrical engineering. After returning to China, he became a professor and librarian of Nanyang University in Shanghai (renamed Jiaotong University in 1927). During the Anti-Japanese War, Aiko paid tribute to his death in Myanmar, because he wrote "Crying for Children", which was painful in writing and drowned his worries in wine.

It is reported that during the Anti-Japanese War, the Chinese Expeditionary Force paid a heavy price to defend the Yunnan-Myanmar Highway. According to statistics at that time, "the total force of the Expeditionary Force was about 1, when it went out to war, and only about 4, when it returned home." Of the 42, people in Du Yuming's Fifth Army alone, 21, people died, accounting for half of the total number of the whole army. At that time, on both sides of the Yunnan-Myanmar highway front, corpses were everywhere, and rivers of blood flowed, which was terrible. At the moment when Du Yuming set foot on the land of the motherland, he knelt down and wailed, deeply feeling the heavy price.

Mr. Wu Yanghan is a well-known scholar in Taicang, with profound knowledge of classical literature. He used to be the director of Taicang Library and a Chinese teacher in Taicang Middle School. This joint work was made in 1946. The meaning of the first part is "the old man left silently, leaving behind the sad image of Crying Son and drinking hard". The bottom line means "your son can't come back if he wants to, so he has to let the fallen flowers in the wind and rain bury your poetic soul."

this couplet is vividly written, beautiful and sad. It is very beautiful to "scribble articles" with "falling flowers and storms" The homonym of "elder brother" is "lucky brother", also known as "elder brother", which is a bird with words in Lingnan, in contrast to "being speechless". "Zi Gui" is homophonic "Zi Gui", also known as Du Fu, in contrast to "Gui Bu". Therefore, "my brother is speechless" and "my son can't return" are puns. And the use of overlapping words, such as the sound of sobbing, grief, beyond words, can be called elegiac couplet boutique. Structurally, the five-character sentence (111/11) of this couplet is composed of (11/)(1/11), and the design of the last word of two words and the first word of three words as "overlapping words" ("Brother is speechless"/"Zi Gui, Gui Bu") is the most wonderful part of this couplet.

This couplet is provided by Mr. Qi, a calligrapher in Taicang, otherwise it will be drowned out.

Fengxian Xiao is holding the Cai E couplet (couplet rhyme and couplet talk)

Wan Li's south sky is soaring, which is worth worrying about for the rest of your life. It is a dream that you get married by chance

After several years of mourning, you have won a hero's bosom friend, and the peach blossom color is also immortal

(1111,1,11. It remains to be verified who wrote it, even though it was not written by Fengxian Xiao. Swallow branch is swallow fat, which is opposite to Pengyi. Karma means more than marriage.

6. Li Tiaoyuan's topic is Beijing Sichuan Guild Hall (page 298 of couplets' rhythm and couplets' spectrum)

Here, you can stop and cut candles, even talk about the scenery of your hometown, Jiange Xionge, Emei Xiubajiang Qujinshui, and endless mountains and rivers come to your eyes

When you enter Beijing, you can think and make suggestions, and the northern road is hard to see a typical philosopher, such as Fu Taibai's poem, Dongpo Wensheng 'an's first trip. 1, 1, 11, *1*, 11)

(11, 11, 1, 11, 1, 11, 1111, 11)

Li Tiaoyuan (Mianzhou, Sichuan. Li Tiaoyuan's coming to Beijing for the exam coincided with the completion of the Sichuan Guild Hall, and the award was suspended, which won the bid in one fell swoop.

On the first link, we talk about the majestic scenery of Sichuan, and on the second link, we hope that Sichuan's humanities will flourish. The theme is distinct, the dictionary is elegant, the nostalgia is strong and the ambition is extraordinary. The usage of "even words" and "hard to look at" is very appropriate. It is the work of talented people.

"Cut the candle to the west window" uses Li Shangyin's poem "Bashan sends to the north": "When you ask about your return, evening rain will rise to the autumn pool. When * * * cut the candle at the west window, but talk about evening rain ".

"Shengan Kedi" indicates that Yang Shen, with the word "Yong Xiu", was named Shengan, and was ranked first in the court examination between Zhengde and Germany at the age of 24, hence the cloud.

if three three-character sentences and one four-character sentence are combined into two sentences, the linking structure is the standard "horseshoe rhyme":

(11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11)

(11, 11, 11. 11)

7. He Shaoji titled Yueyang Loulian (Dictionary of Appreciation of Places of Interest, page 19)

On the first floor, He Qi, Du Shaoling's five-word swan song, Fan Xiwen's two words, Guan Qing, Teng Zijing's flourishing, Lv Chunyang's three-time drunken poem, Ye Ru, Ye Li, Ye Xian, Ye where, before me, are the ages that have gone?, made me cry

You guys try to see the Dongting Lake, the South Pole, Xiaoxiang, the Yangtze River, and the Wuxia Bus.