How many words are there in Spring Festival couplets?

Spring Festival couplets are a kind of couplets and a unique literary form. It depicts the background of the times and expresses good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, which is China's literary form. Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should choose a pair of bright red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add a festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival.

There are also four characters, five characters, six characters, seven characters, eight characters, nine characters, crosses, eleven characters, 12, 13 and hundreds of words long.

classify

Classification by purpose

1. Universal couplets-Spring Festival couplets

2. Special couplets-tea couplets, birthday couplets, wedding couplets, elegiac couplets, industry couplets, motto couplets, gift couplets and question-and-answer couplets.

Classified by word number

1, short link (within the cross)

2. Zhonglian (within 100 words)

3, long couplets (100 words or more), etc.

Classified by rhetorical skills

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 conjunctions

1, sentence-set couplet: a couplet 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.