Strung pairs refer to the fact that in a poem or couplet, the sentence and the couplet are not opposite in meaning and grammatical structure, but are connected from top to bottom, and the two sentences cannot be separated from each other.
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Liushui couplets are a kind of modern poetry, which means that sentences and couplets are not opposite in meaning and grammatical structure, but are inherited from top to bottom. , the two sentences cannot be separated from each other, let alone inverted, and there is a certain order in the language structure.
Liu Shui Dui is a type of modern poetry. Different from the general principle of contrasting sentences and couplets, the sentences and couplets in Liu Shui Dui are not opposite in meaning and grammatical structure, but are opposite in meaning and grammatical structure. It is inherited from top to bottom and has a certain order from front to back. For example, "Walking to a water-poor place, sit and watch the clouds rise." (Wang Wei's "Zhongnan Bieye").
There is a continuous relationship between these two sentences. You must first go to a place where water is scarce, and then you can sit down and watch the clouds rise and fall. The order of these two sentences cannot be reversed. The next sentence succeeds the previous sentence. The two sentences form a complex sentence, but the words used in these two sentences form a contrast. This kind of confrontation is like water flowing from upstream to downstream, so it is called "flowing water pair".
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The flowing water pair is the most appreciated among the verse couplets. It has high artistic quality and is a relatively difficult pair to produce. If there is a couplet of flowing water in a poem, it will appear much more lively.
There are some sayings about the flowing water couplet: "The flowing water couplet in the ancient rhymed poetry is often a rare couplet, that is, because it is completed in one go, smooth and without separation, like flowing clouds and flowing water, and the wonderful rhyme is natural." "The flowing water couplet makes the structure of a poem compact. If it is used as a neck couplet that carries the important task of expanding the poetic meaning, it can often make the image of the whole poem flow and fly with practice."
"Tang Yin" by Hu Zhenheng of the Ming Dynasty "Guizhu Fa Wei San": "Yan Yu's waves are thousands of miles away, and he is a single boat day and night" is a cross pattern, and Liu Changqing's: "River travelers can't bear to look north so often, why is Saihong flying south again" is a fourteen-character pattern. Two sentences have only one meaning, and the running water is opposite to the ear. "Shen Deqian of the Qing Dynasty, Volume 1 of "Shuo Shi Yu Yu": Five-Character Rhythm﹞The central couplet is based on the pairing of virtual and real, and the pairing of flowing water.