Spring couplets with seven characters: Top: Spring land of brand-new years. Next: Shoushan River in the festive year.
antithetical couplets, also known as antithesis, door antithesis, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, etc., are antithetical sentences written on paper, cloth or engraved on bamboo, wood and columns. The antithesis of couplets is neat and even, which is a unique artistic form of Chinese with one word and one sound. Couplets are the treasures of China traditional culture.
antithetical couplets, also known as antithesis, door-to-door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, peach symbols, couplets (named after the couplets hanging in the halls and houses in ancient times), are a kind of dual literature, which originated from peach symbols. Another source is Spring Posting. The ancients posted the word "Yichun" more and more in beginning of spring, and then it gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the good wishes of the working people in China to ward off evil spirits and disasters, and welcome good fortune.
Couplets are antithetical sentences written on paper or cloth or engraved on bamboo, wood and columns. It is a unique art form of Chinese language, which is concise and profound, neat and even, with the same number of words and the same structure
Requirements
1. The number of words should be equal and the sentence breaks should be consistent. In addition to deliberately leaving the position of a word to achieve a certain effect, the number of words in the upper and lower couplets must be the same, no more or less.
2. Be even and even, and have a harmonious tone. The traditional habit is to "pucker up and fall flat", that is, the ending of the last sentence in the upper couplet is puckered up, and the ending of the last sentence in the lower couplet is flat.
3. The main parts of speech are relative and in the same position. Generally called "virtual to virtual, real to real", it means noun to noun, verb to verb, adjective to adjective, quantifier to quantifier, adverb to adverb, and the relative words must be in the same position.
4. Be content-related, and connect up and down. The meanings of the upper and lower links must be connected with each other, but they cannot be repeated.