Of course, there are the longest and longest couplets, which should be called couplets * * * A total of 16 12 words, this couplet appears in the upstairs of Jiangjin Linjiang, Chongqing. As calligraphy, couplets appeared much later, about 500 years ago in the Ming Dynasty. A few years ago, someone called me and asked me to identify a couplet. I said it was a couplet. He said it was written by Zhu in Song Dynasty. Please identify it.
After listening to this, I told him politely that you don't have to run. It's really impossible. He said that you haven't seen the real thing, so how can you say it's fake? He is deeply suspicious of this. I will explain to him when China's calligraphy couplets appeared, and he will know when he understands them. It is almost impossible to be true.
China's calligraphy couplets appeared in the Ming Dynasty, but Sheng Xing was in the Qing Dynasty. Since the appearance of calligraphy couplets, due to the influence of many factors such as wall area, the number of words in calligraphy couplets is not too much, generally five, seven and eight characters.
Of course, there are also some with a little more words, and the writing of a little more is different from the usual couplets. We call it "Long Mendui". Calligraphy couplets written for others should generally be written in the upper right of the first couplet, the lower left of the second couplet or the middle writer's name. Kang Youwei and Yu Youren are the most typical examples of this way. However, some authors of calligraphy couplets have to ask long questions in couplets for various reasons, some describe why they wrote such content, some describe the origin of this content, and so on.
For example, Wu Changshuo often writes Shi Guwen couplets, and sometimes he does long questions on them. The content is about the first drum of Shigu written by him, and a word is verified. I have also written long calligraphy couplets, such as "lotus root has apricots but no plums". The author of this couplet is Cheng. The author is a senior cadre at the deputy ministerial level and is known as a child prodigy in the Ming Dynasty. The long title describes under what circumstances Cheng skillfully used the homophony of Chinese characters to answer couplets, which are extremely neat and neat, and are called good couplets.
It should also be noted that three behaviors should be filled in the long questions, that is, the right side, the left side and the right side of the couplet, so as to have a sense of balance. Stamping means that the cover cover should have a first cover and a waist seal. The waist seal is on the left side of the couplet, and the middle part is lower. Signature can be done according to the author's habits and aesthetics, without being too formal.