/view/2925.htm#2 couplets, also known as couplets or couplets, are antithetical sentences written on paper, cloth or carved on bamboo, wood and columns, which are concise, profound, neat and even, and are unique to Chinese language. According to legend, couplets originated from Meng Changjun, the master of Shu after the Five Dynasties. It is a cultural treasure of the Chinese nation. With the rise of poetry in the Tang Dynasty, prose couplets were excluded. Prose couplets are generally informal, straightforward, and do not avoid repetition. They do not overemphasize the equivalence of parts of speech without losing duality. Couplets have a long history, and it is said that they originated from Meng Chang, the master of Shu after the Five Dynasties. His inscription is "New Year's Eve, Qing Yu, Festival". The word "Changchun" on the peach symbol board on the bedside door is "inscribed with peach symbols" (see Shu Lang). This is the earliest couplet in China and the earliest Spring Festival couplets. (See practical writing,No. 1987,No. 1, talking about couplets at random) Features: First, the number of words should be equal and the sentence breaks should be consistent. In addition to deliberately leaving a place for a word to achieve a certain effect, the number of words in the upper and lower couplets must be the same, neither more nor less. Verb to verb, adjective to adjective, quantifier to quantifier, adverb to adverb and relative words must be in the same position. Third, it is necessary to have a clear hierarchy and a harmonious tone. According to the rhyme, if the upper rhyme is puckered, the lower rhyme should be flat, meaning "puckered up and put away"; Otherwise, if the upper rhyme is flat, the lower rhyme will be retracted. Both are their own requirements. Fourth, the content should be related from top to bottom. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding father of the Ming Dynasty, strongly advocated couplets. After establishing the capital of Jinling (now Nanjing), he ordered ministers, officials and ordinary people to write a couplet and put it on the door before New Year's Eve. Dressed in casual clothes, he went out door to door to watch the excitement. At that time, the literati also regarded antithetical couplets as elegant music. They are classified according to their uses: 1. General couplets-Spring Festival couplets II. Special couplets-tea couplets, birthday couplets, wedding couplets, festive couplets, elegy couplets, industry couplets, motto couplets, gift couplets. According to the number of words, the title couplets are classified as: 1, short couplets (within a cross) 2, and Zhonglian (within a hundred words). According to rhetorical skills, it is divided into 1. Binary association: speech pair, material pair, right pair, opposition pair, work pair, wide pair, flowing pair, palindrome pair and top pair. 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, antithetical couplets: couplets composed entirely of ready-made sentences in ancient poetry. 2. Ci couplets: 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. Writing Spring Festival couplets has become a temporary social fashion.