Calligrapher Long Tengfei

Couplets, also known as "doors", "spring stickers", "couplets" and "couplets", are neat, uniform and simple words, describing the background of the times and expressing good wishes, which is our unique literary form.

At the beginning of Spring Festival travel rush, Spring Festival travel rush will be temporary. Now, according to national traditions and customs, every household in urban and rural areas will always put up new Spring Festival couplets to show that they hope to spend the New Year on Lunar New Year's Eve, live in harmony and welcome the sweet beauty. It can be said that the Spring Festival is a unique traditional festival in China, our unique traditional culture and couplets. This stems from the long history of China, such as the Spring Festival, Spring Festival couplets, and the history and culture of social life and customs that enter the homes of ordinary people every Spring Festival.

The history of the knowledge of ancient couplets in China can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period, and then the wooden stilts or wooden pillars carved on the rolling door are also long bamboo pieces hanging on the door, and then the thick ribbons written in ink (which northerners call a cover) decorate the door. Before the invention of papermaking in ancient China, the literati who wrote couplets hung banners on paper, which could be developed into writing on red paper and pasted on the doors of a booth and exhibition hall. Couplets are also called Spring Festival couplets. Many couplets congratulate people on their new marriage, complete their new home, sincerely celebrate jubilee, birthday, birthday and other festivals, elegies of mourners and relatives, and related filial piety. Couplets are the most widely used folk stories, but most people like them. Accompanied by firecrackers, the wedding banquet goes hand in hand, adding a kind of happiness and auspiciousness to people's festivals. It should be said who studied the content and form of ancient couplets. Because the format of Spring Festival couplets comes from China's classical poems, it should be noted that the antithesis of couplets and parallel lines is strictly equal. If every word of the couplet is linked together, it should be required that the tone of the couplet is a poem with a balanced yin and yang, and it should be written in calligraphy with the skill of composition. Therefore, according to ancient scholars, it is a profound and elegant artistic couplet.

However, with the popularization of vernacular Chinese and the development of popular culture, the current couplets have paid little attention to the strict poetic methods pursued by the ancients, such as all opposing principles, but at least a decent couplet should pay attention to the writing method of peers' choice of words, that is, the number of words and the part of speech should correspond to their peers. According to the requirements of standardizing modern Chinese, nouns, adjectives, verbs, numerals and phrases should be arranged in a relatively orderly manner, at least the last word sought relative to the tonality mode should be reduced. The last word usually associated with it is Pingsheng (the third and fourth sounds of Chinese Pinyin), and the last word of the second production line should be Pingsheng (that is, the first and second sounds of Chinese Pinyin). This should be the minimum requirement for creating couplets, otherwise it is not called couplets, at least it is not a standard couplet. On the occasion of the Lunar New Year, when you visit your family or stroll in the street, you can enjoy the new Spring Festival couplets posted by every household while being happy. Only with the careful taste of words can its meaning be truly pleasing to the eye and cultivate your sentiment. If you are determined to chew and recite quotations with wonderful links, it is tantamount to an elegant artistic appreciation that you do not have. Because when you see those wonderful couplets and the evaluation process, it is a useful attempt to improve your artistic appreciation and reading ability. I remember a long time ago, Nanchang TV's TV series "Related Forest Exotic Customs" collected many famous works related to the ancient Miao nationality in China, which can be described as "Jia Lian is good, Zhang satirizes the Miao family." BR/>; Some people say that the birth of New China is always celebrated: "Beijing, Chongqing, Chengdu, Xi, Nanning and Changchun. The author skillfully applies the names of six cities in the alliance, but it is not easy to savor them carefully. As a verb, "Chongqing United" means "Chengdu" and "Changchun City", which means colleagues. In addition, the same last sentence is to live together. Strictly speaking, the fly in the ointment of this joint venture company is wrong!

I heard some clever eight place names and couplets in Jiangxi Province: "The music of forever repairing bronze drums in Wanzai County, Xinshicheng". Pay attention to words, meanings and phonology. This is probably a great couple. The author saw a good couplet in Jingdezhen in his early years: "A good beginning, the sun and the moon compete for glory, and the blue-and-white phoenix tree floats in the spring and autumn." "Traditional art" is a "good start" here. Jingdezhen porcelain is made of blue and white, with fragrance floating in spring and autumn. The meaning of the word, sound and light are more agile. The author is well versed in ancient Chinese parasol trees in China.

I have a friend, one of whom got a bachelor of arts degree the year before he graduated from university. His literary attainments are not shallow, especially good at poetry and painting. I remember once going to his house and seeing a new Chinese painting hanging on his research. His painting couplet: "A day with green branches and flowers in the window" is engraved with 1, and tea comes at night in the house. He was proud of the poetic and charming Spring Festival that year, and his success was. Related self-appreciation: "Three years of cold windows and winter snow are everywhere, and Li Pengcheng is booming." This will have a profound and extraordinary impact, which I will never forget.

It is called Alliance: "Sanjiang Plain in Heilongjiang Province, where the overall business is prosperous and resources are abundant". Different from ancient couplets, it almost spreads modern couplets to a wide range of commercial shops. Another example is "Dragon and Phoenix are auspicious songs, bumper harvest celebrates peace", "Tianbao Yang is at home, and talents in China" and "firecrackers say goodbye to the old year and plum blossoms bloom for many years", which is a good folk couplet and still valid today. I can't forget my childhood in my hometown in Jingdezhen. Please refer to the couplets for the New Year, and I can't forget the freshness.

Couplets are defined as Lunar New Year, and other couplets can be used all year round. The ancients once quoted a sentence from the silver ball in the Song Dynasty, "Love slowly changes a person's age of autumn." In addition, today's silver ball connects the rainbow to map the pine tree. Well, Wenfeng, a teenager at the Autumn Exhibition, said, "After reading it, people with very different feelings represent the hair of the joint venture company during the Cultural Revolution. For example, Mao Zedong's commonly used poem" The four seas are churning, the five continents are shaking, and the wind and thunder are excited ". Another example is "Golden Monkey is a close call, Jade Jade clarifies Wan Li's feelings.

The popularity of seven-character couplets with more than five words is a useful stakeholder from the perspective of Five Words Poems and Seven Laws. The sixth, eighth and ninth characters of couplets are also very common. In addition to the above examples, there are five related words, such as "Woye Wan Muchun", "Spring in the Ancient City", the sixth couplet of "Shenshan Zhao Hui", "Dapeng Gao Xiang Wan Li, Long Tengfei Millennium" (the year of the snake), "The wing of the Golden Rooster Dance Company, the silver dog sings" (the year of the dog). There are nine characters such as "Spring Breeze, Rain, Green Jiang Nanan and Xueruitu" to welcome the spring breeze10000, and there are even more exquisite and wonderful four-character couplets, such as "Spring is coming", "Spring is full of China" and "Peach and plum are all over the world" on New Year's Eve. This connection can also be extended to 1 1 couplet "a generation of romantic forgery" to express their wishes, and the real hero is the peach and plum in the garden. In other words, the ancients had a hundred words and a huge couplet, but too many words were not suitable for couplets after the Lunar New Year.

In addition to life couplets from all walks of life, there are also family Spring Festival couplets. School-related "Hard work can be seen everywhere, and students' loyal coaches can be trained in the spring on campus" and enterprise opening-related "Pioneer of production, research achievements of Qian Qiu Industry and by going up one flight of stairs" record the good Spring Festival couplets scattered by the author in cities and rural areas, among which there are many excellent works with quite positive significance and appreciation value.

This is how the Spring Festival couplets in China developed. So far, many people have been moved and encouraged to create profound couplets for the people to celebrate the Spring Festival. Don't you understand, "from north to south, songs are in full bloom, the Great Wall and dance add luster to the reform and opening up, and the economic construction is ambitious." In the reform and opening-up of China, the social customs are constantly changing, and the annual Spring Festival is more solemn and auspicious. A long-term and stable country makes people more happy to learn and excited to live in this great country. It is conceivable that an era with strong consciousness will stimulate people's enthusiasm for reform and construction. On the other hand, in order to celebrate the upcoming Spring Festival Art Festival, China's reform and embrace of the 2 1 century, put forward the arm of spring brush and ink to stimulate writing, and then show the brushwork FY, which is full of the flavor of the times to create more and better new Spring Festival couplets.

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