It can be used as either the first or second line. For example: the first couplet: people go well, home goes well, everything goes well; the second couplet: finances go well, and transportation leads to roads; the first couplet: the house is beautiful, the house is beautiful, everywhere is beautiful;
Couplets, one of the traditional cultures of the Han nationality, also known as couplets or pairs, are dual sentences written on paper, cloth or carved on bamboo, wood, or pillars. Couplets are neatly contrasted and harmonious, and are a unique Chinese art form that uses one word for one sound. Couplets are treasures of Chinese traditional culture.
Couplets are also called antithetical couplets, door pairs, spring stickers, spring couplets, antithetical couplets, peach charms, couplets (named after the couplets that were often hung in the halls and halls of houses in ancient times), etc. It is a kind of antithetical couplet. Literature originated from Taofu. It is a dual sentence written on paper, cloth or carved on bamboo, wood, or pillars. The words are concise and the meaning is profound, the contrast is neat, the oblique and oblique are coordinated, the number of words is the same, and the structure is the same. It is a unique art form of the Chinese language.
Couplets are a treasure of traditional Chinese culture. The earliest recorded couplets appeared in the Three Kingdoms era. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1399), a large iron cross was unearthed in Luling, Jiangxi (now Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province), with the Chiwu reign number of Sun Quan of the Three Kingdoms era (238-250) cast on it.
Couplets are the literature of confrontation. This parallel symmetry of language and characters is consistent with the so-called "Tai Chi generates two things" in philosophy. That is to say, everything in the world is divided into two symmetrical halves of Yin and Yang, which are very similar in nature of thinking. Therefore, we can say that the philosophical origin and deep national cultural psychology of Chinese couplets are the dual concept of yin and yang. The dualism of yin and yang is the basis of the ancient Chinese worldview. To grasp things with the dualistic concept of yin and yang is the way of thinking of the ancient Chinese.
An artistically exquisite couplet is cast on the iron cross: "The whole world celebrates Anlan, the iron pillars leave a cross with precious light; all the people cherish the great zeal, and the golden furnace incense and seal inscriptions are kind to the future." A couplet hung during the Spring Festival. They are called Spring Festival couplets, the couplets for funerals are called elegiac couplets, and the couplets for happy events are called celebratory couplets. Couplets are a national style written using the characteristics of Chinese characters, and generally do not need to rhyme (only the couplets in rhymed poetry need to rhyme).
Parallel prose and rhymed poetry are the two direct sources of couplets. In the process of its own development, couplets also absorbed the characteristics of ancient poetry, prose, lyrics and music. Therefore, in addition to verse and parallel prose, the sentence patterns used in couplets also include ancient poetry, prose, and imitation of lyrics and music. Different sentence patterns have different applicable rhythms and different leniency and severity. Among them, the regular verse style has the strictest requirements for level and obliqueness, while the ancient verse style has requirements for the level and obliqueness at the end of the sentence, and other positions are unrestricted.